Missing menu bar

[Tux]

Hi,

apart from 4 icons on the main toolbar, I don't see any menu bar with e.g. the File or Edit menu:
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I tried the .deb binary from the Ubuntu ppa repo, avidemux_2.8.0.appImage and avidemuxLinux_GLIBC_2.28_amd64_220207_1746.app but the menu bar is missing everywhere.

Any ideas?

Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Display Manager: lightdm
Desktop Environment: xfce

Thanks
Chris

[eumagga0x2a]

Some Ubuntu own global menu stuff installed and messing with the menu?

[Tux]

Not that I'm aware of, I just installed updates regularly.

[eumagga0x2a]

http://www.webupd8.org/2017/02/alternative-global-menu-for-mate-and.html
https://github.com/rilian-la-te/vala-panel-appmenu
https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/bionic/vala-panel-appmenu

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dpkg -l xfce4-appmenu-plugin

[Tux]

 

Ok, I installed xfce4-appmenu-plugin (which uninstalled unity-gtk2-module), vala-panel-appmenu and vala-panel-common but I still don't see the menu bar of avidemux.

I noticed that the menu bar is displayed when I switch to the standard Ubuntu window manager.

[Tux]

For some unknown reason, it works now :-)

Thanks a lot for your support!

[eumagga0x2a]

Ok, I installed xfce4-appmenu-plugin (which uninstalled unity-gtk2-module)

Of course, I meant that neither xfce4-appmenu-plugin nor any other global menu implementation should be present. The command would just show whether the package is installed.

[Tux]

Ok, I "read" too fast and assumed that it has to be available.

Anyhow, both methods work now: if xfce4-appmenu-plugin is installed, the xfce4 indicator plugin crashes as soon as I start avidemux - but this can be fixed by hiding the Application Indicators (from the list of known indicators).

The other way, removing xfce4-appmenu-plugin (and unity-gtk2-module) works too.

Thanks a lot for your help!