Hardy Heron gnome terminal missing menu bar

Thanks for your report, can you take a screenshot of the issue? Does right click on the terminal and selected "Show Menubar" works for you? Is this reproducible with every user on your system?

Thanks for the quick response Pedro,.

Yes. I created a new user and the same problem persists.

Attached is what it looks like. I also checked that compiz is turned off in Appearance settings.

Does right clicking and selecting "Show Menubar" works?

Thanks Pedro. 'Show Menubar' worked.

Do you know why the title bar is missing min, max, close buttons? And why I can't open a new tab using CTRL-SHIFT-TAB? Actually, I can't even Alt-TAB to another window?

I would have filed another bug report but it could be something simple as my original problem.

I just had this happen with Hardy Alpha 4 during tonight's updates.

If I do Show Menubar, a menu bar appears with nothing on it. The hotkeys don't spawn a new tab or new window, although I can from the context menu.

Yeah , I got this bug too.
From my investigation, it's actually not the menu bar that is missing, but the labels for the menu bar that are missing (such as "File" etc). The menu bar is still there, but it doesn't have any labels. Try clicking at the left most area of the menu bar, and voila the drop-down menu pops.

Now here's my latest investigation :
Running gnome-terminal with root privileges doesn't reproduce the bug. So I guess it's the user's gnome configuration (gconf) that screw everything.

May you get an strace log? If it works fine with "root" it should work fine with another new user if the gconf keys are broken on your account, may you test that? thanks in advance.

I've found out the cause of this problem. It's the "Disable all menu access keys" option accessible from "Edit" > "Keyboard Shortcut". If this option checked , the labels will be gone after the gnome-terminal restarted.
To reproduce this bug maybe you should test it by doing so.

i can confirm this

I can confirm this too

Same problem here.

Thanks all, I've sent this upstream at : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518059

This is fixed upstream now, thanks for reporting.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-terminal - 2.21.92-0ubuntu1

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gnome-terminal (2.21.92-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (lp: #195931)
    - Ensure menu items are always drawn (weren't in some cases) (lp: #183521)
    - Stop forcing invisible_char to '*' (yet again)
  * debian/patches/02_autoconf.patch: updated

 -- Pedro Fragoso <email address hidden> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:04:31 +0000