Emacs24: emacsclient doesn't use global application menu

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Published on 2012-10-04T01:57:16Z Indexed on 2012/10/04 3:53 UTC
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I noticed that Emacs24 makes use of Unity's global application menu. (I'm using Damien Cassou's Emacs24 snapshots.) However, it doesn't do that when emacs, emacsclient or emacsclient.emacs24 are run but just with emacs24.

How can I fix that? (Is that a bug? If so, should I file a report in Emacs' or libappmenu's bugtracker?)

[EDIT]: As far as I can see this could be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appmenu-gtk/+bug/673302 .

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