Kde global menu does not work

[Jreey_Cao]

kde’s global menu, system applications that directly display the global menu after opening, such as konsole, dolphin, but there is a very strange problem, there are many third-party programs, such as chrome, edge, vscode, eclipse, global menu is not displayed when it is opened, at this time, open a system application, and then close it, the global menu appears, such as this operation: open chrome, global menu is not displayed , Then click konsole, the menu of konsole is displayed at this time, and then turn off konsole, the menu of chrone will be displayed at this time

[Aragorn]

Yes, this is a known upstream KDE bug, and it has been around for a while already. They’ll fix it eventually, but I guess it doesn’t sit very high on their priority list. .

[ddns]

Try this plasmoid : https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1274975 .

[Aragorn]

I’ve tried that ─ it’s available from the AUR ─ and on my machine, the result is even worse. It only shows a global menu when both it and the official global menu widget are on the panel, and then you get two global menus. If you remove the official global menu widget and only use the replacement, then the menu is shown inside the application window.

All in all, the bug in the official global menu widget is not that catastrophic. You only have to switch over to a running Qt-based application and back, and then it’ll work for all GTK applications that support it. Not all applications do ─ Pamac and TimeShift do not, for instance. And for Firefox you need to use one of the alternatives instead, as I’ve explained in this thread below.

[HowTo] Enabling KDE global menu support in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird

Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ Those of you who like the global menu in KDE Plasma will have already noticed that neither Firefox nor Thunderbird export their application menu to the Plasma global menu widget out-of-the-box. And indeed, in their original form as they ship from Mozilla, these two popular applications do not. But that doesn’t mean that you’re stuck with an inconsistent look & feel on your desktop. The thing however is that you must not be using the stock Firefox and/or Thunderbird anymore,…

[Jreey_Cao]

@Aragorn

I’ve tried

I’ve tried KDE 5.21 beta，it has the same bug

[Aragorn]

Yeah, the bug was introduced in Plasma 5.19.4, I think. It’s probably so low on their list of priorities that it may only get fixed for the official release of 5.21.

[grahamperrin]

@Jreey_Cao

… third-party programs, such as … vscode, …

@Jreey_Cao

… KDE 5.21 beta，it has the same bug

Not on Manjaro, but for reference:

• Code - OSS 1.53.0 works with the global menu with KDE Plasma 5.20.5 on FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT.

Related comment (with screenshot) in the helloSystem repo: Make VSCode work with the global menu · Issue #51 · helloSystem/Menu · GitHub

[yell0w4xy]

Use the latest version from the repo GitHub - psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu: Plasma 5 applet in order to show the window appmenu

git clone git@github.com:psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu.git
cd applet-window-appmenu
./install.sh