Comment 36 for bug 1064962
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| Peter Harvey (pdqharvey) wrote Re: Global menubar items do not work when opening a document directly from nautilus with no LibreOffice instance running | #36 |
To help those needing to have a reliable workaround, it is this:
If NO Libreoffice documents are currently open, ensure that you open an EXISTING file from the general LibreOffice 'White Window'. Then the menus should be displayed.
This works for me, whereas minimising restoring etc. produce no benefit.
In case this is of help tpo those searching for the bug, I think the problem can be distilled thus:
Two scenarios -
A)
If first LO document to be opened already EXISTS, menus will NOT be displayed.
Subsequent documents (even of other LibreOffice types) WILL display menus.
B)
If first document opened is a NEW document, opening further EXISTING documents of the same type will force the first to close (with the offer to save it if file contents have changed) but the menus will then be displayed for all remaining LO documents.
NB:
Opening an EXISTING document from within the general LO 'White Window' causes menus to be visible in that and subsequent documents. Opening an EXISTING file from within a NEW document (of any type) seems to behave in the same way (with a curiously low importance given to the new document involved).
General:
Once things have gone wrong, and menus are hidden, etc, the icons already pinned to the Unity Launcher start to show a variety of bizarre results on right-clicking (Calc even showed up as a launcher for a Launchpad version of a browser window...), offering to be locked to the Launcher when they are already etc.
With the workaround above, LO is usable. However, Alt STILL fails to bring down the application menus...