GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 755726
Preferences are not available when running outside of gnome-shell
Last modified: 2021-06-19 08:47:48 UTC
Created attachment 312285 [details] Hamburger menu lacks Preferences item Call me stupid but I can't figure out how to get to the menu when running eog from i3-wm. The help file says, "Click Edit ▸ Preferences to start changing the preferences", but there is no Edit menu... only the hamburger button that has neither an Edit nor a Preferences menu item. Looking through the help file it has several outdated references to the old-style menubar, for instance "Click View ▸ Slideshow to show all of the pictures in a folder as a slideshow" too. [forwarded from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=793445]
You should get an app icon with a menu at the left side of the headerbar. Not clear why that is not happening for you with i3.
This was fixed downstream, either by adding this patch: https://sources.debian.net/src/eog/3.18.2-1/debian/patches/0001-Add-a-traditional-menu-bar.patch/ Or removing this one: https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/eog/debian/patches/disable-appmenu-when-not-needed.patch?view=markup&pathrev=47341
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