Libre-office: Can open dmenu and search menu items, but not execute action

[Jazoray]

Environment: Linux Mint XFCE x86 Python 3.4.3 LibreOffice 5.0.3.2 00m0(Build:2)

steps to reproduce:

1. while libreoffice (for example libreoffice-writer) is focused, invoke the hud menu
2. select an action from the list
3. press enter

expected behavior: the selected action is run

actual behavior: libreoffice does not execute the selected menu item action

errors encountered:

jard@jard-VirtualBox ~ $ sleep 3 && python3 ~/applications/i3-hud-menu.py (user switching focus to libreoffice writer and selecting action) ERROR:dbus.connection:Unable to set arguments ('win..uno:Cut', [], {}) according to signature None: <class 'ValueError'>: Unable to guess signature from an empty list Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/jard/applications/i3-hud-menu.py", line 181, in try_gtk_interface(gtk_bus_name_cmd, gtk_object_path_cmd) File "/home/jard/applications/i3-hud-menu.py", line 158, in try_gtk_interface gtk_action_object_actions_iface.Activate(action.replace('unity.', ''), [], dict()) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in call *keywords) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 641, in call_blocking message.append(signature=signature, args) ValueError: Unable to guess signature from an empty list

further information

I consider this issue especially severe, because libreoffice detects that an external menu us being used and hides the normal menubar. I know of no way to restore the menubar in libreoffice

[Jazoray]

temporary workaround:

remove the package libreoffice-gtk. this will remove the global menubar integration and bring back the normal menu. of course, then the i3-hud-menu can't be used at all with libreoffice. but at least we get any useable menubar.

[jmaris]

can also confirm this issue

[jamcnaughton]

Its appears LibreOffice does not register its menu entries with org.gtk.Actions in the dbus. Same also applies to the gtk3 version of gedit.