The old menu of Archive, Edit etc. is behind the gnome-shell panel and it's very annoying. How do I remove this menu in the top panel? I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 by the way.
Here is the problem.
I hope someone can help.
By the looks, that's the Ubuntu global menu. To remove it, open a terminal and paste this
sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt
You may need to restart your computer afterwards. If you wver want them back, simply reinstall the packages.
Yes there is a better way than removing the appmenu packages. Just type the following:
echo '[ ${DESKTOP_SESSION#ubuntu} = $DESKTOP_SESSION ] && unset UBUNTU_MENUPROXY' | sudo tee /etc/X11/Xsession.d/81ubuntu-menu-proxy
This will fix the gnome-shell problem but not affect Unity, nor Unity-2D.