Continuing the discussion from gimp menu bar disappeared:
After my update from 15.4 to 15.5 this bug has reappeared apparently. I have ‘Show Menu Bar’ enabled and there is no menu bar. I am a heavy GIMP user so I noticed it straight away. GIMP version is 2.10.30.
This may or may not be related. I am trying to do a very simple edit of a photo: add text to explain the photo. Giving up on simpler apps, I downloaded GIMP just now. It’s version 2.10.36. I am using the latest update to TW and latest KDE plasma.
The problem I am experiencing is the menus are so small, they are unreadable. All the text is similarly so tiny as to be meaningless. My monitor resolution is 1360x768 but at the top of the GIMP menu, it says 1536x2048. I can’t read any menu item to find a fix. If I open an image, the image appears normal. For clarity, this is the only app that this happens in.
@GofBorg have you tried the graphics repo?
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/15.5/
@Prexy There should be something in the preferences that you can change.
Gimp here is all good but I think gimp here comes from the tumbleweed graphic repo.
I always add the graphic repo here .
Thanks for the tip. I added the repo and updated all gimp files but it didn’t fix the problem. I also tried to find “Preferences” and an adjustment for font size. No adjustment I could find was a fix. But remember, I can’t really make out the text of any of the menus. So, I might have missed something obvious.
@Prexy For a start delete your ~/.config/GIMP folder then logout and login.
Thanks for helping. This did not change the font size in the menus. I looked at the sub-folder in the GIMP config that is labeled menurc. There are hundreds of lines of code and I saw nothing specific to this problem.
Can you recommend another program that does my simple task?
@Prexy See if it will help, I am no sure I didn’t test it…
The Icon size is not connected to the menu font size…
@hui the image above is about the menu being so tiny.
I think the unreadable text prexy was pointing is not about the text in the menu but the gimp’s text when he/she created it. He forgot to modify the size of the text to be readable. It’s just my assumption because it was not properly explained what text it was referring to. If it is not the text I am suspecting then could be probably a gtk font problem and it will be outside the scope of gimp preference.
Repo version does not help. I think it is an issue with GTK proper but I don’t know. When you use the Show Menubar command in GIMP it does nothing. Check the box, nothing, uncheck the box nothing, recheck the box nothing. Setting it in Preferences as default on, nothing.
Sorry I can’t help you with that. You can probably write a bug report if someone comes in and was able to reproduce what you are experiencing. Does it not appear even by right clicking the area where it suppose to appear.
Try “pinta” much simpler and supports writing text on top of the image.
It does appear on right click but that’s not really my work flow. I am basically having to relearn GIMP doing right click stuff. It feels unnatural but I’m sure I’ll get used to it, and then it will get fixed and I’ll get back to how I was working. What’s weird is if you do Alt F or some Alt Menu item, it always appears in the upper left under the KDE window Application menu icon. I can actually make GIMP crash if I fool with the menus and the preference boxes too much.
This is interesting. I was able to create a menu bar as a ‘floating’ dialog. Unfortunately it is not dockable in the main window. I think the Window Manager created the menu bar not GIMP.
I never seen that behavior and quite interesting.
Try to play around with the themes and some stuffs in the preference there might be some feature hiding that we don’t know.
Okay so the problem is with some dysfunction with KDE.
Out of curiosity I loaded up ICEWM and launched GIMP.
Menu bar is there.
Solved: Problem was with KDE Window Decorations.
From under ‘Titlebar Options’ I removed, ‘Application Menu’.
Now my standard GIMP menus are back. Thanks for the assistance,
maybe my trials will help someone else.
Good to know you were able to solve it. 
This did not work for my problem. The text is still too small to read.
I tried all the suggestions here but nothing solved the problem. I even checked in on the GIMP message board. They said I could not alter the font size on the menus but I could try to edit gtkrc and add a line that controlled the font. Unfortunately, that did not work either.
As suggested, I tried Pinta. But that has the same problem! Menus too small to read. It must be a conflict between kde and gtk. Years ago, I used GIMP with no problems except how complicated it can be. So, some incompatibility arose.
Thanks for trying to help me resolve this.
