| Summary: | Global menu broken for Wayland-native GTK applications | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Linus Dierheimer <Linus> |
| Component: | Global Menu | Assignee: | Kai Uwe Broulik <kde> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | alexander.huang.y, gobonja, j5lx, mvourlakos, nate, nicolas.fella, plasma-bugs, uhhadd |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | wayland |
| Version: | 5.23.90 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Wayland or X11? Or both? Wayland only. Did this actually work before on Wayland? I remember that being an older issue Yes, 5.23.5 works. But it was implemented not long ago. If i had to guess i would say around 5.22. GTK does not and has not supported our current Plasma-specific Wayland protocol for app menus. It may be possible that your GTK apps were running on XWayland under 5.23 for some reason. If you wish to force them back onto XWayland, you can set the environment variable GDK_BACKEND to xcb. I've been working on upstreaming a cross-desktop protocol for appmenus in Wayland so that GTK and other toolkits can support them natively too, but for now, forcing non-Qt apps to X11 is your only option if you want other toolkits to support the app menu under Wayland. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 424485 *** |
SUMMARY After the update to the 5.24 beta, GTK apps don't seem to have a global menu anymore. The panel containing the "global menu" applet is just empty. Happens at least in latest Chrome and latest Mailspring. QT Apps work fine. Following relevant packages are installed on top of the plasma ones: appmenu-gtk-module libappindicator-gtk2 lib32-libappindicator-gtk2 libappindicator-gtk3 lib32-libappindicator-gtk3. systemctl --user status appmenu-gtk-module.service: ○ appmenu-gtk-module.service - Appmenu GTK Module Environment variables Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/appmenu-gtk-module.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Update your arch system to the latest release, with the kde-unstable repositories enabled 2. Add a global menu panel 3. Open a GTK app 4. Observe OBSERVED RESULT Panel is empty / global menu is missing EXPECTED RESULT Panel is not empty / global menu is shown SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: / macOS: / Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.16.0 / 5.23.90 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION