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After restart computer global menu in nautilus disappeared. Ubuntu 14.04 enter image description here

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  • Type sudo apt-get install indicator-appmenu in Terminal. I think it will solve the issue.
    – Wolverine
    Jan 3, 2015 at 12:01
  • I've already this package
    – mystdeim
    Jan 3, 2015 at 12:02
  • Type sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop. If you do have that too installed, remove it and re-install it. Remove that indicator-appmenu too and re-install it. Then, reboot your system.
    – Wolverine
    Jan 3, 2015 at 12:02
  • What Nautilus version is this? It looks like you addded the gnome3 PPA.
    – xangua
    Jan 3, 2015 at 15:08
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    If no one else comes up with anything, you can always install the Nemo File Manager. It does the same as Nautilus and looks very similar, but just has a few more advanced features.
    – Fabby
    Jan 4, 2015 at 13:42

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I had the same issue since a couple of weeks and thought it would go away automatically (some problems do ...) So I didn't remember what caused the changes. Thank you @xangua, the hint about gnome3 helped. I found the repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging in my apt sources which I added because I had issues with the nautilus dropbox client

To get the default nautilus menu back (top menu + context menu), I had to force version 3.10 instead of version 3.12 (apparently installed with the gnome3 ppa):

sudo apt-get purge nautilus nautilus-sendto nautilus-share ubuntu-desktop indicator-appmenu
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus=1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.11 nautilus-data=1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.11
sudo apt-get install nautilus-sendto nautilus-share ubuntu-desktop indicator-appmenu
nautilus -q

output of sudo dpkg -l | grep nautilus | awk '{print $2 "------" $3}' 

libnautilus-extension1a------1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.11
nautilus------1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.11
nautilus-data------1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.11
nautilus-dropbox------1.6.1-1
nautilus-sendto------3.6.1-2ubuntu1
nautilus-sendto-empathy------3.8.6-0ubuntu9.2
nautilus-share------0.7.3-1ubuntu5
seahorse-nautilus------3.8.0-0ubuntu2

I haven't restarted yet, so I don't know if the dropbox support is back working. But having the menu's back is more important for me anyway.

Tim

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