Unity

Window buttons doesn't appear when opening a file

Bug #876415 reported by josiasmat
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Bug Description

When opening a file from a file manager (ex. double-clicking on a Writer document in Nautilus), sometimes (not always) the window buttons (close, minimize and maximize) doesn't appear, but the global menu still works.
(Also the button on the Unity Launcher - I'm using Ubuntu - doesn't appear, but I think this is another bug in another package).

Steps to repeat:
1. Open any LibreOffice document by double-clicking it.
2. Put the cursor on the global menu bar. The menu shows, but the window buttons doesn't.

I don't know if this is a bug in lo-menubar, or in Unity, or in LibreOffice.

I'm using Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10), on a Core 2 Duo E7400, 4GB RAM, nVidia GPU 9400GT.

Screenshot of Writer attached.

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josiasmat (josiasmat) wrote :
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Saurav (sauravzone1) wrote :

The icon not appearing in the launcher seems to be a related issue, not a separate one. On my system, if I use the global menu extension, the menu bar, title, window buttons and launcher icon all fail to appear. The absence of the menu bar effectively makes the application unusable. If I remove the global menu extension, the menu bar appears beneath the panel because the global menu functionality isn't there, but the title, window buttons and launcher icon fail appear. A screenshot showing this is attached.

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Saurav (sauravzone1) wrote :

On my system the problem occurs even when starting LibreOffice afresh, not just when opening a file. However, the first time I start any LibreOffice application after starting the system, everything works correctly. If I start any LibreOffice application again after closing the first one, the problem occurs and remains until I reboot the system.

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Saurav (sauravzone1) wrote :

The problem does not occur due to the lo-menubar extension. Confirmed in comment #2.

affects: lo-menubar → df-libreoffice
Changed in df-libreoffice:
status: New → Confirmed
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Saurav (sauravzone1) wrote :

The problem occurs only in Unity, not in the GNOME Shell. It might be related to Metacity if Unity is using Metacity in Oneiric instead of Mutter.

affects: df-libreoffice → unity
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 750186, so is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

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