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Håkon A. Hjortland
Asked: 2012-05-07 20:15:23 +0800 CST

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?

gvim appmenu

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  1. 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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  2. There is a workaround here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/776499

    Create an alias at the top of your shell init file (e.g. ~/.bashrc):

    alias gvim="UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 gvim"
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  3. My Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 can work with gvim -f.

    • vim-gnome: 2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2.1+aptbuild1
    • terminator: 0.96-0ubuntu1+aptbuild1
    • guake: 0.4.2-7+aptbuild1
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  4. I can add the -f(--nofork) option when start gvim:

    alias gvim="gvim -f"

    This only works for gvim.
    firefox and others don't have this -f option.

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  5. Another potential cause might be the ~/.gnome2/Vim file. This solution (which suggests that you delete ~/.gnome2/Vim) for the issue in Hardy Heron (before Unity) fixed the issue for me on Ubuntu 13.10.

    For whatever reason, gvim -f didn't work for me.

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