Bug 510180

Summary:	Application menus daemon - app menus not showing in multiple programs
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	radjenovicpredrag
Component:	Global Menu widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	akselmo, kde, mvourlakos, nate, notmart
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.4.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	CachyOS
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Kate with daemon ON Kate with daemon OFF

Description radjenovicpredrag 2025-10-02 19:50:26 UTC

SUMMARY
As said above, app menus not showing in multiple programs when the daemon is running. Observed apps:
- DaVinci Resolve (20.0 +)
- Inkscape
- Gimp
- Kate, Dolphin (instead of the menu, only a hamburger button is showing in the upper left corner) 

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enable daemon
2. Open DaVinciResolve (most critical, a lot of options are not available in any way without a heavy workaround) or any other app listed above  

OBSERVED RESULT
Menus not appearing

EXPECTED RESULT
Menus available under the titlebar

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.8-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor
Memory: 96 GiB of RAM (91,9 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7E49
System Version: 1.0

Comment 1 Marco Martin 2025-10-03 07:59:04 UTC

does the menu show correctly inany other app?

Comment 2 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-10-03 08:56:16 UTC

Can't repro

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.9-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-10-03 16:31:06 UTC

To be clear, this isn't about the global menu *widget*, and is instead about the global menu *button* that you can add to windows' titlebars, right?

Comment 4 radjenovicpredrag 2025-10-03 16:37:26 UTC

Created attachment 185484 [details]
Kate with daemon ON

Comment 5 radjenovicpredrag 2025-10-03 16:37:53 UTC

Created attachment 185485 [details]
Kate with daemon OFF

Comment 6 radjenovicpredrag 2025-10-03 16:41:20 UTC

(In reply to Marco Martin from comment #1)
> does the menu show correctly inany other app?

Short answer - no.
Long answer - Maybe? The apps I'm using the most have no menu, that is what I can reproduce. If you have an app in mind that I should test - why not, let's see.

Comment 7 radjenovicpredrag 2025-10-03 16:43:23 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> To be clear, this isn't about the global menu *widget*, and is instead about
> the global menu *button* that you can add to windows' titlebars, right?

It's actually about the main menu under the title bar. I have no idea how it is designated, but the menu is gone when the daemon is running. Instead of it, I have a hamburger button on the titlebar. 

I added screenshots of Kate as an example.

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2025-10-07 21:20:34 UTC

Well that makes sense, then. :) When the daemon is running, it's exporting the in-app menubars to some kind of other menu UI. There are two of them:
- Global menu widget (intended to be displayed on a panel)
- Menu button in the titlebar

You appear to have the latter. If you don't want to see your windows' menus using this little titlebar button, there are two options:
1. Remove the "Application Menu" button from the titlebar in System Settings > Colors & Themes > Window Decorations > Configure Titlebar Buttons (may be behind a three-dot overflow menu)
2. Keep it there, but don't run this daemon