I tried logging in as guest, but I am using the latest Netbeans 7.1.2 which isn't in the repository. It is in my /home directory, so guest doesn't see it. I don't know how you are seeing menus if you are using Ambiance. I started to use Radiance to solve the problem. Since Netbeans is so central to my workflow I also posted a message in their forum and got a lot of useful help
http://forums.netbeans.org/viewtopic.php?t=47823&sid=d029aa1b6fa5e98eecbed2db071fbd70 The most useful tip was to append "--laf Metal" to the execute command. The Metal look and feel solves the problem for me. It also solves the ugly bold text, so I can now tell which is the main project. Apparently the problem is already known since another person reported: Hi guys, you may have noticed that a new LTS been released several hours ago. It has a bug in a default gtk2 theme "Ambiance". All java applications menus will have a black font on a black background. Bug already reported on launchpad, but have no idea when it will be fixed, so here is a solution: sudo vim /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc Find a row 338 with contents: style "menu" { and make it look like this: style "menu" = "dark" { save and your java menus will be fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991009 Title: No menus for Netbeans To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-appmenu/+bug/991009/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
