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Close Kate, delete that line in all files (katerc and the .katesession files), and reload Kate -- the menu should display. | Close Kate, delete that line in all files (katerc and the .katesession files), and reload Kate -- the menu should display. | ||
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Revision as of 18:37, 6 November 2011
About
Ubuntu version 11.10 further entangles the new Unity desktop manager into the system, rendering even the optional Gnome desktop manager difficult to use.
Unity places some application menus in the screen's top bar, somewhat like MacOS, removing them from the application's window(s). Aside from the aesthetic issues, this also causes those applications to be essentially unusable under other desktop managers installed on the same system because the application's menu does not show up anywhere.
In the case of at least one application (Kate), the cause seems to be a configuration setting:
There's a configuration line that appears in N+1 different places, where N is however many sessions you have saved; encountering any of them causes it to get written to the others at the next opportunity.
- 1. ~/.kde/share/config/katerc
- N. ~/.kde/share/apps/kate/sessions/*.katesession
The line looks like this (boldfaced):
[MainWindow] Height 900=700 MenuBar=Disabled
Close Kate, delete that line in all files (katerc and the .katesession files), and reload Kate -- the menu should display.
Links: some steps I went through while figuring this out