Gvim menu bar missing
9 March 2009
I just opened gvim on my Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) box and found there was no menu bar (File, Edit, etc).
After messing with some guioptions and getting nowhere I ran gvim as root (using sudo) and the menu bar was there. The answer came from a forum post by “Marko”:
Delete the file ~/.gnome2/Vim
It will be recreated when you run gvim again. With luck, the menu will be displayed again.