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I have recently switched to Ubuntu gnome and I can no longer see the global menu bar of several programs, libreoffice apps included, as shown below.

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How can I show the global menu bar in the libreoffice applications? For example, in Fireforx, I can display it by pressing Alt. However, I tried pressing Altas well as the F keys and I cannot get the menu bar displayed.

I have found this answer, however, I am not really fond on removing libreoffice-gtk as I can still have the menu bar when launching Ubuntu on Unity.

I have also read about installing lo-menubar, yet I cannot find instructions for installing it (I have found this website though)

I is intriguing that I can have the menu bar (ribbon option) on libreoffice writer (below). Yet I cannot enable it on libreoffice draw because I am missing the menubar (in case the draw application supports the ribbon layout, like writer)

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BCArg
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  • yes, please check edited question – BCArg Apr 10 '18 at 12:22
  • What's the gap between the title-bar and the icons (red box: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fdq1w.png). Can you click there? – pomsky Apr 10 '18 at 12:30
  • That's indeed a good question. I tried to click on it (both right and left click) and nothing happens. Please have a look at my edits, it appears that the gap you've mentioned is occupied by the menu bar (ribbon option) on libreoffice writer. – BCArg Apr 10 '18 at 12:35
  • You’re actually talking about enabling a local menu in the top bar so it isn’t hidden by the global menus. I don’t have 17.10 so I’m not sure if this applies but check system settings, appearance, behavior tab, and under “show the menus for a window,” enable the “in the window’s title bar” option. – Hee Jin Apr 10 '18 at 13:10
  • @Emily It doesn't apply to 17.10 as it came with GNOME instead of Unity. – pomsky Apr 10 '18 at 13:19
  • @pomsky yes it is indeed odd. I could do that, the thing is that I think it is not only libreoffice related, as some other apps are not displaying the menu bar, while others are, as shown in this other question. – BCArg Apr 10 '18 at 13:32
  • Hmm... did you install this extension and now disabled it: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1250/gnome-global-application-menu/? – pomsky Apr 10 '18 at 13:33
  • @pomsky indeed I have installed it a while ago. I have just read the reviews and it seems this extension messes up with gnome. Any way to completely remove it from my system, something like purging? – BCArg Apr 10 '18 at 14:05
  • Ah OK. @pomsky, do you think it could be something that could be fixed in dconf? I actually use gnome-panel in Unity and noticed that the top panel in gnome-panel, which has a global menu bar, sometimes sticks itself on top of my application window menus so I had looked into issues related to gnome-panel a bit and saw some fixes that suggested changing some settings in dconf. – Hee Jin Apr 10 '18 at 14:06
  • @Emily In this particular scenario, that specific extension makes changes to some gsettings/dconf keys which are not reverted once the extension is disabled/removed. See my answer to the other question by OP: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1009076/global-menu-bar-in-ubuntu-gnome-17-10 Probably that was the root of OP's problem (unfortunately they can't apply the fix in my answer due to broken gsettings/dconf). – pomsky Apr 10 '18 at 22:05
  • @pomsky Thanks for the clarification! That is unfortunte :-/. If gsettings/dconf are broken, is the only fix a reinstall? – Hee Jin Apr 11 '18 at 00:49
  • @Emily You can try the answers from here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/558446/my-dconf-gsettings-installation-is-broken-how-can-i-fix-it-without-ubuntu-reins – pomsky Apr 11 '18 at 00:53

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