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On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 04:15:47PM -0700, Michael Williamson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a new user, and I have a question.
> 
> When I run gschem on ubuntu 12.4, the window is missing the menu bar shown in
> the documentation that has "file", "edit", "buffer", "view", ...
> "help" buttons. (But the
> other menu bar is present.) Without that menu bar I can not find the
> keyboard shortcuts list. Nor is the keyboard shortcuts list in the
> on-line documentation that I could find.
> 
> Also, I can report a bug. In the window for editing component
> attributes, the entry box for the 'value' is squashed flat. Although
> unreadable, it is possible to type in a value and 'add' it.
> Making the window taller does not fix it.

The bug is known, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/geda/+bug/876299

Your gschem version is out of date.
The current stable version of geda-gaf is 1.8.2.
Check if your distro has it, or you can find an unstable version for
Ubuntu at https://launchpad.net/~mehanik/+archive/geda-unstable