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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?


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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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