Ubuntu – How to get global application menu for gvim

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Gvim does not have a global menu (appmenu / application menu) in 12.04,
and when starting gvim from a terminal,
the following warning appears in the terminal after 25 seconds:

** (gvim:20320): WARNING **: Unable to create Ubuntu Menu Proxy: Timeout was reached

How to fix this?

Best Answer

Solution 1: Make the global menu for gvim work

To get global menu for gvim and to get rid of the warning message, add this to ~/.bashrc and restart the terminal:

function gvim () { (/usr/bin/gvim -f "$@" &) }

Solution 2: Disable global menu for gvim

To just get rid of the warning message, you can disable the global menu, at least for gvim:

For example, add this to ~/.bashrc and restart the terminal:

alias gvim='UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= gvim'

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