I hate it when important topics just get shutdown.
I just had this yet again. It followed some “corruption” of my KDE (kubuntu) .config files, such that I lost the lower panel. I recreated it by hand and hit this problem once again.
My son pointed out the LibreOffice menu had not so much “disappeared” but MOVED , into the KDE bottom (in my case) panel. The solution was to edit the KDE panel and delete “global menu”
(to add add it choose , settings, kde panelm global menu)
It appears, if it exists, libreoffice uses that and suppresses the in application menu.
(It appears I cannot edit my original post, so this will look messy… read it as a replacement of the original)
To establish some context. I run Kubuntu(KDE) on a small NUC. One day the
“panel” at the bottom of the screen vanished. As a result it was no longer
possible to launch programs or do very much at all. This had happened before
and turned out to be due to something corrupting one of the .config files.
The long and the short of it was I needed to create a new panel and populate it,
which I did. Several days later when I launched LibreOffice, it had no “Menu
Bar” …so I did wonder if similar corruption had occurred. A quick google took
me to:
Which matched my symptoms but none of the solutions worked.
It turned out my problem had a different cause. My Son actually spotted it and
insisted I update the thread so others could benefit from this (as I had
benefited from their experiences) rather annoyingly the thread was “locked” so I
am forced to create a new thread with (continued) as a suffix, making it
slightly harder for future searchers to find it.
This “version” of the issue turns out to be KDE specific and is as follows:
-------------- The problem (and solution) ------------
My son pointed out the LibreOffice menu had not so much “disappeared” as MOVED,
into the KDE bottom (in my case) panel. The solution was to edit the KDE panel and delete "global menu"
(to add add it, choose: settings, KDE panel, global menu)
It seems, if it exists, LibreOffice uses that and suppresses the “in application” menu.
To be clear and to not bruise sensitive egos. This is NOT a bug in
LibreOffice. It’s supposed to work that way. The “bug” was my (re)creation of
the KDE panel to include “global menu” . As an alternative you may just want to
use the menus that way (e.g. Like an Apple Mac)
