[Lazarus] Ubuntu unity problems, again

Ludo Brands ludo.brands at free.fr
Tue Jun 28 20:19:50 CEST 2011


Dear all,

Ubuntu 11.04 (unity) uses now the "global menu" to show the application
menu. This means that the application menu is anchored to the desktop panel
and not to the application window anymore. Problem is that the global menu
shows the main menu of the active window. So if you are in the source
editor, the global menu says "Source Editor" with no menu items. To get to
File, Edit,... you have to click on the Lazarus IDE window first...

Luckily there is a workaround. Start lazarus with the command

UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= ./lazarus

or, from a batch file

export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=
./lazarus

Ludo





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