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I do not have the menu bar of LibreOffice in the top panel of my Unity desktop (the Global Menu functionality). Though I have installed lo-menubar.

Those are the characteristics of my system:

  • Ubuntu 11.04.
  • LibreOffice 3.3.3 installed from the appropriate PPA.
  • lo-menubar 0.1.1~pre1-0ubuntu2.

How do I fix it?

Jorge Castro
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Agmenor
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It works now simply by removing the lo-menubar package and installing it again :

sudo apt-get remove lo-menubar

Then

sudo apt-get install lo-menubar

Why this happend?

As I suppose the lo-menubar is like a plugin for libreOffice. When you updated the program, the plugin needs to be re-installed, this solution worked for me after trying it.

And this must be done when you install this package by the above command :

 Synchronizing repository for bundled extensions



  Enabling: menubar
   Enabling: Jobs.xcu
   Enabling: menubar.uno.so

unopkg done.

This what I can explain for now.

Binarylife
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  • It worked. If you can explain me why, I would be thankful to you. However I now have a new problem : the icon set has been changed into a "legacy" one, looking like OpenOffice.org. But I'll open a new question for this. – Agmenor Jun 29 '11 at 12:40
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    @Agmenor : Answer updated. And for the icons , yes it is better to ask another question. – Binarylife Jun 29 '11 at 12:49
  • @binarylife : thank you very much. Here is the new question : http://askubuntu.com/questions/51118/why-does-libreoffice-use-openoffice-org-like-icons . – Agmenor Jun 29 '11 at 12:59
  • @Agmenor: You are welcome. – Binarylife Jun 29 '11 at 13:19
  • This solution is not working for me, even after a restart. I am running the 64bit version of Natty, might this make a difference? Any ideas? – geoffrey Jun 30 '11 at 08:47
  • @geoffrey : I personally tested this solution only on 32-bit version, and it worked well. But in your case I don't think it will matter. Are you using the latest version 3.3.3 form this PPA? – Binarylife Jun 30 '11 at 09:12
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    @binarylife yes, I'm using that PPA, same version of LO and lo-menubar as in the question above. I'll probably have to downgrade LO to 3.3.2 – geoffrey Jul 01 '11 at 10:01
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    @geoffrey: Or 3.4.1 ;) , which has the global menu by default. – Binarylife Jul 01 '11 at 11:19