Sublime Forum

Global menu not working [ST3] [Ubuntu 14.04]

#1

Hello,

My Sublime Text 3 does not show the menu bar in global menu of Ubuntu Trusty 14.04.

I’d tried enable it in new “whitelist” on dconf, tried “GTK_MODULES=globalmenu-gtk” options, but nothing works.

Can you help me?

Thank you.

0 Likes

#2

Hi! Did you installed Ubuntu from scratch or upgrade the previous version? If you updated, did menus worked previously? Which desktop enviroment do you use? If it’s Ubuntu I guess it’s Unity, right?

0 Likes

#3

Hi my8bit,

I updated from ST2. Just unpacked the app in a folder and changed a “.desktop” launcher.

Yes, I’m using Unity and all works before.

[EDIT]
Just now, I tried move the “.config/sublime-text-3” folder, and start ST3 with whole new config. And I got same behavior.

0 Likes

#4

This is because the unity modules aren’t installed, it took me a long time to track this down. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1313353 for the same issue in other apps.

The solution is to install both gtk modules.

sudo apt-get install unity-gtk2-module
sudo apt-get install unity-gtk3-module

Then log out and back in and the global menus should start working again in all your apps.

0 Likes