# Global Menu no longer working

**URL:** <https://discuss.kde.org/t/global-menu-no-longer-working/36061>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** x11\
**Created:** [June 24, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/global-menu-no-longer-working/36061 "2025-06-24T02:46:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![meven](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/meven/32/1748_2.png) [@meven](https://discuss.kde.org/u/meven)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/global-menu-no-longer-working/36061/4 "2025-06-27T14:09:29Z")

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In Wayland, global menu works only with KDE/QT apps in KDE Plasma.

There has been an effort by KDE dev to implement a protocol for it for all applications, but for lack of support by other compositor mainly (GNOME, hyperland, weston…) it has been stuck in review for 3+ years.

> **[dbus\_annotation: new protocol (!52) · Merge requests · wayland /...](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/52)**
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> The protocol allows clients or surfaces to be associated with DBus objects and interfaces. This formalizes the ad-hoc extensions made to X and similar compositor-specific Wayland...

Janet even prepared patches for both firefox and chrome.

This is listed in [Plasma/Wayland Known Significant Issues - KDE Community Wiki](https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues)

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