All menu items are greyed out and insensitive on my machine after an upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04. The only menu items that show as sensitive are sub-menus, all of whose menu items are greyed out.
I am still able to save my current project with the Ctrl-S shortcut, and I can open files from nautilus. The normal pause, play, stop, etc buttons work as expected as part of the main user interface. It appears only to be the main drop-down menus that are affected. I am running unity, and the drop-down menus are in the 13.10 style - ie are at the top of the screen rather than being part of the audacity window.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: audacity 2.0.5-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaCards:
0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
HDA Intel PCH at 0xf6010000 irq 59
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Apr 25 19:40:18 2014
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: audacity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-25 (0 days ago)
I am running unity + gnome shell, currently in gnome. I am experiencing the same problem. Even after selecting a certain portion of the sound file by highlighting it, basic functions like copy, remain greyed out. Of course, all the effects are also greyed out.