PyGTK menu doesn't display under Ubuntu Unity?

Question

I have a PyGTK application, and it works fine in Gnome, but under Unity (ubuntu 10.10+) the global menu bar doesn't work - the menus are not displayed in the application window or the top bar. Is there a way to force the menu to either skip the global menu bar or display in it?

Edit: Minimal sample added.

#! /usr/bin/python

import GUI
from GUI import Window

app = GUI.Application()

window = Window()

window.show()

app.run()

Answer 1

I had similar problems with simple programs created using pygtk. I believe the situation is:

• pygtk works with gtk2.x
• Unity uses gtk3
• pygtk does not work with gtk3
• python-gobject is the gtk3 equivalent of pygtk

You have an extra layer of complexity since you're using pyGUI. Most likely, pyGUI uses pygtk, which will not work with GTK3 / Unity. You can either persuade the people at pyGUI to release a GTK3-compatible version, or re-write your app from scratch using python-gobject.