Re: Should Emacs set UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 unconditionally?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philipp Stephani <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:03:11 +0000
> 
> You can get back menus on each frame by starting emacs like this:
> % env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= emacs
> 
> Are there any downsides of setting UBUNTU_MENUPROXY? It seems that it can 
> only ever fix problems, at
> least until the integration into the Unity menu is fixed. If that is the 
> case, should Emacs set the variable
> unconditionally on startup (for its own process, not for subprocesses)?

Does it really help setting the variable from within the running
Emacs?

In any case, this is only acceptable if we can reliably detect Ubuntu,
IMO.  Setting arbitrary environment variables that the user didn't ask
for is generally a misfeature.