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How to disable the app menu functionality ("global menu") in LibreOffice, Ubuntu 12.10?

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The gtk-desktop integration activates the unitymenu if unity is available. This can be prevented by uninstalling libreoffice-gtk, which also removes all themeing and results in a very ugly LibreOffice without unity integration.

Bjoern Michaelsen
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    Bjoern Michaelsen -- That worked. As you indicated it is ugly but at least I can use LibreOffice now. This upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 has some terribly nasty side effects even beyond this one. For instance alt-Tab not identifying some applications which were minimized and therefore unrecoverable. Bad show, ubuntu, very bad show. –  Oct 29 '12 at 19:06
  • upgrading/updating often scares me, the global menu is so annoying and troublesome..; this answer fix for me on 12.10, it also enforces removal of libreoffice-gnome, but til now I see no problems on that, and the "ugly interface" is not that ugly... and most importantly it works fine now what is MUCH better than looking pretty :) – Aquarius Power Jan 12 '14 at 22:15
  • This fix also works in Ubuntu 15.04 – Ian D. Allen May 03 '15 at 21:19
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Let me quote an answer from How do I enable or disable the global application menu?. This is how you disable the app menu on a per application basis :

To disable appmenu support on a per application basis, set the UBUNTU_MENUPROXY variable to null, with:

env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= eclipse

the env keyword is useful if your trying to launch the application with the ALT-F2 shortcut.

You'll find more details on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationMenu#Troubleshooting.

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Agmenor
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    I don't believe this works for Libreoffice, because if I'm not wrong, global menus for certain applications (like Libreoffice and Firefox) are implemented in an application-specific manner. – ztangent Oct 28 '12 at 03:31
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As Flimm already stated, removing lo-menubar won't remove LibreOffice's Global Menu.

To remove LibreOffice's Global Menu, you need to remove this package:

sudo apt-get remove indicator-appmenu
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If you want to remove the "global menu" just for libre office this could work:

sudo apt-get remove lo-menubar

If you want to remove the "global menu" from ALL applications you should do the following on the terminal:

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt

If you want to put it back then use this on the terminal:

sudo apt-get install appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt

I hope this could help you. Good luck!

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  • lo-menubar in Ubuntu 12.10 is just a dummy package, so removing it won't have any effect. – Flimm Jan 21 '13 at 20:52
  • These worked in 12.04, but with 12.10 and 13.04, the LibreOffice menu is integrated in libreoffice-gtk so removing those things does not help with LibreOffice. – Alexis Wilke Sep 26 '13 at 20:43