File menu missing

[daviddoria]

I am using audacity that ships with Fedora 13. I noticed that the file menu is missing! (I have all of the toolbars/buttons at the top of the window, but no menus). Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks,

David

[bgravato]

Is it only the File menu? or all the other menus (edit, view, effects, etc) too?

What version of audacity is it? What window manager are you running? gnome? kde? some other?

If you press Alt-F anything happens? (this should bring down the file menu...)

[Gale Andrews]

I am using audacity that ships with Fedora 13. I noticed that the file menu is missing! (I have all of the toolbars/buttons at the top of the window, but no menus). Anyone know how to fix this?

Please post an image of the entire screen if what bgravato wrote does not help. Some possibilities: the top of Audacity is hidden under a top-aligned taskbar; the Audacity Device Toolbar is obscuring the Menu bar...



Gale

[daviddoria]

It is the whole menu bar that is missing. I can't tell which version of audacity it is because I don't have a help menu! I am running gnome. When I press Alt-F nothing happens.

Here is a screenshot:
http://rpi.edu/~doriad/Screenshot.png

Thanks for your help so far.

Dave

[bgravato]

Apparently that's caused by gnome's globalmenu applet. I guess this is an attempt of creating in gnome the macos-x behaviour, but apparently not very successfully...

Anyway I found this blog post which might help you:
http://mamchenkov.net/wordpress/2010/05 ... lications/

[daviddoria]

Hm, I actually had tried that, but then audacity complained that

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[[email protected] ~]$ audacity&
[1] 2975
[[email protected] ~]$ Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "globalmenu-gnome": libglobalmenu-gnome.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Expression 'stream->capture.pcm' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 3653


and wouldn't start.

However, this time, it still produces that error, but now it seems to be working fine!

Strange... but working.

Thanks again!

Dave

[bgravato]

After uninstalling the globalmenu did you restart gnome?

Also sometimes audacity fails to start when some conditions saved in the preferences file from previous session fail, such as missing device, which is not the case here... nonetheless it could help to delete the preferences file (~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg) and start audacity with all preferences reset to default...