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23.2.90; buffer menu in meun-bar not updating

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Bob van der Poel <bob <at> mellowood.ca>
Cc: 7425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7425: Acknowledgement (23.2.90; buffer menu in meun-bar not
	updating)
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:42:02 +0100

Bob van der Poel skrev 2010-11-19 02.49:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Jan Djärv<jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>  wrote:
>
>> You have to log out of your X session and back in again after removing
>> appmenu-gtk.  Did you do that?
>>
>
> Just to be clear, simply removing appmenu-gtk (via synaptic) fixes the
> menu problem. However, removing appmenu-gtk creates a problem with
> gobs of warning messages being printed to my terminal.
>
> The gtk warnings go on for pages, but the first few illustrate the issue:
>
> menu_proxy_module_load': src/emacs: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
>
> (emacs:2092): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load type module: (null)
>
> `menu_proxy_module_load': src/emacs: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
>
> (emacs:2092): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load type module: (null)
>
> `menu_proxy_module_load': src/emacs: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
>
> It make no difference if I restart X or not. Matter of fact, I just
> rebooted completely to verify this. I also tried a few other gtk
> program and they show same warning messages. But, the menus in the
> other programs work with or without appmenu-gtk.
>

Other programs don't update their menus just before the menu click like Emacs do.

It sounds like you still have UBUNTU_MENU_PROXY set in the environment.
What does
% env|grep UBUNTU_MENU_PROXY
say?

Does it help to
% unset UBUNTU_MENU_PROXY
before starting Emacs?

> My _guess_ is that emacs is:
>
>   - not configuring something when setting up its gtk interface,
>

No.

>   or
>
>   - my system is missing a DBUS setting.

Probably not.

>
> Hope we can get the resolved. I'm using a lucid version of emacs I
> compiled the other day and it works fine (but I don't like the
> appearance of the lucid stuff).
>
>

	Jan D.

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