Missing MENU in most KDE apps?

griadooss · February 3, 2019, 2:47am

Most of my KDE apps … Dolphin, KMail etc … and some third party apps … eg LibreOfficeWriter … do NOT show, and i cannot makes them do so, the menu bar across the top of apps … above any toolbar that is displayed.

Has anybody got the solution to this … it is making bad my day!!!

Thanks

unix111 · February 3, 2019, 11:32am

Most of those programs should react to alt+f (open File menu), alt+e (Edit), alt+v (View) or alt+h (Help). What happens when you use these key combinations?

(Even if some theming option hides the menu bar, it should show up when you use those keyboard shortcuts. Another possible scenario would be having the KDE or Gnome make the menu bar global, like with GEM or macOS, and then hiding that global menu bar, possibly on another screen in a dual-monitor setup, in which case selecting Mirroring as a display setting might make the menu bar visible again.)

knurpht · February 3, 2019, 12:03pm

Please show output of


zypper lr -d

between CODE tags ( the # in the editor )

dcurtisfra · February 3, 2019, 1:06pm

Log out from the KDE session.
From a VT (tty) console, login, cd to ~/.cache/ and remove everything in the user’s Cache directory.
Log back in to the KDE session.

[HR][/HR]If removing everything in the ~/.cache/ directory is too much for you, remove at least the “ksycoca5_”, “plasma”, “qt_compose_cache_”, “org.kde.dirmodel” and “icon-cache*” files …

griadooss · February 4, 2019, 10:55am

jedaa (su #) zypper lr -d                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
#  | Alias                               | Name                        | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                                  | Service                                         
---+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------                                         
 1 | Educational_Repo                    | Educational Repo            | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/             |                                                 
 2 | Google_Chrome                       | Google Chrome               | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64                                  |                                                 
 3 | code                                | Visual Studio Code          | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode                                       |                                                 
 4 | download.nvidia.com-leap            | nVidia Graphics Drivers     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.3                                       |                                                 
 5 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss       | Main Repository (NON-OSS)   | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/non-oss/                    |                                                 
 6 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss_1     | Update Repository (NON-OSS) | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/non-oss/                               |                                                 
 7 | download.opensuse.org-oss           | Main Repository (OSS)       | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.3/repo/oss/                        |                                                 
 8 | download.opensuse.org-oss_1         | Main Update Repository      | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/oss                                    |                                                 
 9 | http-download.opensuse.org-441e155a | Update Repository (OSS)     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.3/oss/                                   |                                                 
10 | http-download.opensuse.org-46a5dabf | devel:tools:building        | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/building/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/ |                                                 
11 | http-download.opensuse.org-a8cdc881 | Grub Customizer             | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ecsos/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/            |                                                 
12 | http-download.opensuse.org-d5994616 | Google Drive                | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/frispete:/ocaml/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/  |                                                 
13 | opera                               | Opera packages              | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | https://rpm.opera.com/rpm                                                            |                                                 
14 | packman.inode.at-suse               | Packman Repository          | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/                                     |                                                 
15 | skype-stable                        | skype (stable)              | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | https://repo.skype.com/rpm/stable/                                                   |

Thanks …

griadooss · February 4, 2019, 10:57am

“What happens when you use these key combinations?”

Nothing happens … that i can determine.

griadooss · February 4, 2019, 11:13am

Yes … i had already tried that … and now again. Without success.

knurpht · February 4, 2019, 11:45am

Create a test user, log in as that user and check whether that user has the same issue. If so, it’s an install problem, if not it’s in you’re homedir.

griadooss · February 5, 2019, 2:09am

It is my HomeDIr!!!

Is there somehow I can remedy the situation without loosing all my plasma settings?

Thanks.

dcurtisfra · February 5, 2019, 10:58am

Carefully compare the contents of the user’s ~/.config/ directories.
If you recursively perform a case insensitive search in the ~/.config/ directory for the string “MenuBar”, the chances are that, more than a few entries will be found with the value “Disabled”.

knurpht · February 5, 2019, 2:25pm

Start one of the failing apps, and do Ctrl-M … Report results.

griadooss · February 7, 2019, 12:57am

Thanks! Will be away for a while … but when i return i will do this.