Empty menu button InputLeap

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I am not a Linux noob, just a Garuda noob. I tested out several so-called gaming distros and decided to dual boot my laptop with MX Linux so I could switch to a better option for gaming. It remains to be seen if I can switch completely to this distro as my business is run on this machine. But as for gaming? This rocks! First game downloaded & played without issues. I will continue to test others, but so far, this is what I needed.

While I am slowly learning how to get stuff done in this new -to-me system, I have encountered something I can’t seem to resolve, nor have I found any related issues in the forums searched.

Since I have several machines, Linux Mint, home server with Debian 12, PopOS (Lenovo Tablet), Fedora 40 (Surface Pro), I have used Barrier for years to share mouse/keyboard. When I installed Fedora I found I had to switch to input-leap due to Wayland.

So I installed it on Garuda and opened it to setup, but the menu button (top panel) is empty and I can find no way to get to settings, which is required, in order to do some tweaking in order for it to work with input-leap on Linux Mint.

I searched in the file directories but did not see any .config files that I might edit to accomplish this, so my question is: How do I get the app menu?

System:
Kernel: 6.8.7-zen1-2-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=406d8c92-eb3f-4642-8532-fe14c97261cd rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.2 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.3.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Predator PT314-51s v: V1.08
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: TGL model: Clubman_TLM v: V1.08 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: 0000000000000000 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.08
date: 07/23/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 41.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 41.0/60.2 Wh (68.1%)
volts: 16.5 min: 15.5 model: SMP AP20A7N type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: full cycles: 100
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M720 Triathlon Multi-Device
Mouse serial: <filter> charge: 50% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: N/A
CPU:
Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11375H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11 level: v4 note: check built: 2020
process: Intel 10nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8C (140) stepping: 1
microcode: 0xB6
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 320 KiB desc: d-4x48 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 5 MiB desc: 4x1.2 MiB
L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1560 high: 4715 min/max: 400/4800:5000 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 767 2: 1412 3: 400
4: 400 5: 1444 6: 789 7: 4715 8: 2553 bogomips: 52838
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel alternate: xe
arch: Gen-12.1 process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports: active: none
off: eDP-1 empty: DP-1 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a49
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile / Max-Q]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nvidia v: 550.76
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550.xx+ status: current (as of
2024-06; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-2023 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: none
bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2523 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Chicony HD User Facing driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-8:4 chip-ID: 04f2:b6dd
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: nouveau alternate: fbdev,intel,nv,vesa dri: iris
gpu: i915,nvidia display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 res: 1536x864 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 1 drv: iris
device: 2 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: swrast wayland: drv: iris x11:
drv: iris inactive: gbm,device-0
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.1.3-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:9a49 memory: 11.36 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 10 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
name: Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 24.1.3-arch1.1
device-ID: 8086:9a49 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 1 type: cpu
name: llvmpipe (LLVM 18.1.8 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe
v: 24.1.3-arch1.1 (LLVM 18.1.8) device-ID: 10005:0000
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0401
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.8.7-zen1-2-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 vendor: Rivet Networks driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-10:6 chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 4 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
lmp-v: 11 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c010c
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a0b rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 5.69 TiB used: 1.17 TiB (20.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 2B2QEXM7 temp: 44.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1
size: 232.97 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB
rev: 3.2 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 tech: N/A serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD50NDZW-11MR8S1 size: 4.55 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 3.2 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1
tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1023 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 151.22 GiB size: 151.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 18.35 GiB (12.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
used: 584 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6
ID-3: /home raw-size: 151.22 GiB size: 151.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 18.35 GiB (12.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 151.22 GiB size: 151.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 18.35 GiB (12.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 151.22 GiB size: 151.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 18.35 GiB (12.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 23.27 GiB used: 303 MiB (1.3%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 8 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Power: 12v: N/A 5v: 5 3.3v: N/A vbat: N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 24 GiB available: 23.27 GiB used: 6.28 GiB (27.0%)
Processes: 333 Power: uptime: 11h 54m states: freeze,mem,disk
suspend: s2idle avail: deep wakeups: 1 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown,
reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 9.27 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1930 libs: 553
tools: gnome-software,octopi,paru,yay Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.1.1
Shell: garuda-inxi default: fish v: 3.7.1 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.35
Garuda (2.6.26-1):
System install date:     2024-07-05
Last full system update: 2024-07-06 ↻
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-dkms
Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
Failed units:

Thanks for any help you can offer and remember, I am new to the DE, the package manager, etc.

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This is not up to date, these are the preinstalled versions.

Since you have just installed Garuda, I assume that you have run the “Garuda Setup Assistant” and thus a system update has been carried out. You must then reboot.

The swoosh indicates a pending reboot.

After a reboot, check whether input-leap is working correctly.
If not, then test whether input-leap is working on an x11 session w/o issues (problems with input-leap on wayland are known).

Welcome to the community :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the input. I did reboot and the input-leap button remains empty of menu items. I switched to X11 with same results. Debug log on Linux Mint (server) shows “no neighbor up”. Of course that is because we have not gotten this client configured.

I have found that anytime you start Barrier or InputLeap, if it says “starting” it is not going to work. It needs to say “running.” I am sure it is the settings, as it always defaults to SSL and you have to uncheck that. I could try copying/modifying the settings file (input-leap.conf) from Linux Mint for input-leap and see what happens, but I wasn’t sure of every item to edit, so may not work.

It’s not the end of the world if I can’t get it running, as I do use the mouse/keyboard with button switches where I can use one exclusively on Garuda, as I have been doing. It just kills the copy/paste issue I normally use a lot.

I have the same “empty menu button” issue on Bitwarden, which I installed the desktop version of. There is nothing to be gained by clicking it and nothing displays to the right as in most apps on Garuda.

I definitely like Wayland and will be using it extensively. Any further ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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I dug through the files and found an included example.conf under headless git so I am going to try and see if I can make the modifications from there.

Will update later. Thanks.

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Good hint. Is the menu bar completely missing in input-leap and bitwarden and is it not displayed in the top panel? The menu of the active window should be displayed in the top panel:

bitwarden
bitwarden1920Ă—1080 104 KB

If the menu of bitwarden and input-leap is not displayed anywhere, try removing the top panel.

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Well removing the panel (since as you said, I had no menu items for InputLeap or Bitwarden across the top) certainly gave me access to the menu in each. However, it did not fix the non-working input leap. And I really liked that panel. Will have to get it back now. LOL

I deselected SSL and required certficate, reloaded, but since the log shows " no route to host" I will see if I can figure out the firewall on this OS. Maybe I need to open that port.

Thanks.

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If a panel with Global Menu is activated, the menu bar in applications is removed and displayed in the panel’s Global Menu. If you remove the panel (or just the Global Menu) then the menu bar is displayed in the application windows again. This works with almost all applications out of the box.
Have you installed bitwarden from the extra repo and input-leap from the chaotic-aur - or via Flatpak, AUR or whatever?

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I used AUR for both packages. I don’t use flatpaks. I got the panel back. Bitwarden works fine as you just sign in and the app is set. It is only Input-Leap that will not work. I did add the port to the firewald, but so far, that did not help either.

I remember first trying the chaotic aur, but I did not know how to use it, so when I check both it and package, it gave errors about being blocked. So the next install I left chaotic unchecked? Let me double check where I actually installed from, but I figured out how to use Octopi and did it there.

Thanks.

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Yes, it was input-leap git & headless that I installed by searching the packages, right-clicking install & then checkmark to apply. Before I remembered that Barrier did not work with Wayland, I had tried to install it with chaotic AUR and it installed, but of course, gave me the message it doesn’t work with Wayland. Then I just used Octupi to install the rest.

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