diff --git a/atom/browser/native_window_views.cc b/atom/browser/native_window_views.cc
index 2c0dea85db..664ab50db4 100644
--- a/atom/browser/native_window_views.cc
+++ b/atom/browser/native_window_views.cc
@@ -68,11 +68,10 @@ bool ShouldUseGlobalMenuBar() {
   // Some DE would pretend to be Unity but don't have global application menu,
   // so we can not trust unity::IsRunning().
   // When Unity's GlobalMenu is running $UBUNTU_MENUPROXY should be set to
-  // something like "libappmenu.so".
+  // something like "libappmenu.so" (not 0 or 1)
   scoped_ptr<base::Environment> env(base::Environment::Create());
   std::string name;
-  return env && env->GetVar("UBUNTU_MENUPROXY", &name) &&
-         !name.empty() && name != "0";
+  return env && env->GetVar("UBUNTU_MENUPROXY", &name) && name.length() > 1;
 }
 #endif