wxpython menu bar not displaying

Question

I am trying to write a timetabling program using wxpython for gui and am using the getting started tutorial on the wxpython wiki to get up to speed with wxpython but when I

Answer 1

I had the same problem where i could not see the menu bar because it as in the "taskbar" way up there. So you can just add this to your python script if you do not want to permanantly change your .bashrc file

import os
os.environ["UBUNTU_MENUPROXY"]="0"