The global application menu provides a menu indicator to put the menu inside the Unity panel.
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How can I change GUI settings for applications in Ubuntu? [closed]
A menu in an application's GUI has an 'input box' that appears as a sliver. I need to be able to change the text in the box, and I don't know where to find the settings for the app's GUI so I can ...
0
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LibreOffice menus don't highlight [closed]
I don't know why, but in LibreOffice, menus don't highlight. This is the only program whitch is affected. It is not a huge issue, but I often use the menus with the keyboard, and without highlighting, ...
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Libre Office menu does not show submenus automatically
I've just update my libreoffice 4.0.2.2 to 4.0.3.3.... When I start Writer, Impress or Calc, the first time I click on any main menu it does not show submenus automatically (I recorded problem using ...
1
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0answers
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(XFCE) Is there a way to make <SUPER> not open my app menu when using <SUPER>R?
I'm using <SUPER>R to open terminal, <SUPER>L to lock etc. But I've also got SUPER_L bound to xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu which emulates windows use. Unfortunately when I do ...
8
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1answer
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How do I reduce the size of the menu bar?
I am trying to make a slim-looking radiance theme. I dont want to switch to linuxmint for slim interfaces, and I like the unity interface more.
I have been able to reduce padding from almost all ...
0
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0answers
124 views
Friends not well integrated with app menu / GUI bug [closed]
After upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04, Gwibber was removed and Friends app was installed as its replacement, but when I run it, it opens in the left of the screen giving no hand to be re-positioned, ...
0
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0answers
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Global menu not working in firefox 19
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with Firefox 19, "global menu bar integration 3.7.2" extension has been installed and enabled. Unfortunately the global menu integration does not work, there is still the ...
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2answers
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A weird thing about Sublime Text 2 installed
I downloaded sublime text 2, unpacked it to /opt/sublime and created a link of /opt/sublime/sublime_text (executable) in /usr/bin so now I can just call it by typing "sublime" in console.
But it's ...
0
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0answers
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Is lxpanel compatible with Unity?
I installed lxpanel in my Unity DE to have a simple taskbar and some more functions I couldn't find in Unity.
It's quite perfect, except for two issues:
1) I've added the menu applet to the panel, ...
0
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0answers
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themes and sidebar
I using delorean dark but some of the loaded apps don't show up on the sidebar when opened. How can I get them to show up for easy access instead of minimizing everything to find them? This only ...
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3answers
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Where is the Applications menu
At How do I get rid of the keyring-password-prompt on one.ubuntu.com I got to read:
Open Applications->Accessories->Passwords And Encryption Keys
or on Ubuntu 11.04 press the "super key" ...
3
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2answers
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Detecting use of ubuntu unity global menu
I'm porting a commercial app to Linux, it is to run on several distros. When run on Ubuntu, the GtkMenuBar is removed from the app's window and placed on the main global menu bar. That's fine ... but ...
0
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How do I access “Applications”?
Okay, I'll just go ahead and be stupid. I want to disable Image Checksum in Brasero, and I have found a few instructions like this:
...
3
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2answers
856 views
Appmenu not working in libreoffice4.0
I manually downloaded and installed libreoffice, but know the global-menu wont work.
I tried to install the lo-menubar package but that didn't work.
Question: how to get the libreoffice menubar ...
0
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0answers
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Empathy Menu is not Persistent
I have been experiencing an on-going issue with Empathy's menu. If I open Empathy after I boot my box, the Empathy menu appears normally. Once I close Empathy and reopen it later, the menu has either ...
2
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0answers
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appmenu on Xubuntu 12.10
Is there anyone who succesfully use an appmenu on Xubuntu 12.10?
Before answering please note that I tried with xfapplet (which is no longer available on 12.10) and with this package XFCE appmenu, ...
8
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3answers
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What desktop environments feature a searchable “Start” menu/launcher?
Aside from Unity, KDE and Cinnamon, which of the many desktop environments support incremental search among the start menu items, including not just applications, but recent documents?
That is, which ...
0
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1answer
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How do I move items in the Applications (or Main) Menu Around?
I'm running 12.10 and in 12.04 I was able to move the items (into other categories than where they're presently situated) in the applications menu by means of moving them in the application, main ...
0
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0answers
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Hide or change 'Ubuntu Desktop' on upper bar [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the desktop name on the Unity panel?
How do i hide or change the wording on the top bar in Ubuntu 12.04?
I'd like to alter it from 'Ubuntu desktop' to ...
3
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2answers
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Nautilus missing menubar in 12.10
I installed gnome-shell right away, and then i noticed that Nautilus main menubar (File, Edit and such menus) is missing. It does not appear inside the File Manager window nor on the "global menubar". ...
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3answers
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How do I get the Preferences option in Totem 3.6 on Ubuntu 12.10?
I have upgraded my Ubuntu 12.10 with the GNOME 3 PPA (ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3). This has updated Totem to version 3.6.2. Since GNOME 3.6 has introduced its own global menus, I cannot find the ...
2
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3answers
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How does Ubuntu's Application Menu differ from Mac OS
As the question says, this is what I was asked today. Since I do not plan to buy ANY Mac any time soon, maybe somebody that is/was using a Mac OSX would be kind to answer. How does the Application ...
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1answer
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How do I remove window buttons and file menus from panel in 12.10?
I am a Gnome 3 fan, but after upgrading to 12.10 I feel like I want to give Unity another try. One problem that I have with Unity though is the menu bars in programs and window buttons displaying in ...
0
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0answers
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How do i browse for and reinstate items that i have mistakenly deleted from the applications menu?
I mistakenly deleted compizconfig from the main menu by highlighting it and clicking delete in edit menus (gnome classic and 12.04) and cannot work out how to reinstall.
I have uninstalled and ...
3
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1answer
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Is there any way to re-organise the global application menu?
In any application in Unity, the main menu for the application that has focus gives the options of 'file', 'edit', 'view', 'go', bookmarks', 'help', etc. - just like windows does. While this makes ...
0
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0answers
270 views
How does the Unity Global Menu work?
I'm looking to do something similar to the Global Menu and I'm wondering how the Unity shell does this. How it gets the relevant menu associated with the active window is specifically what I'd most ...
2
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1answer
643 views
Cannot see user desktop (Applications, Places, System…) when I log in
I am very new to Ubuntu. I recently got a new laptop running Windows 7. I am using Virtual Box and just installed the Ubuntu 12.10 ISO as a new Virtual Machine within Virtual Box. Everything seemed to ...
1
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1answer
121 views
Can only see icons that in the desktop. no global menu, no dash! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unity doesn’t load, no Launcher, no Dash appears
I just upgraded my 12.04 system to 12.10, but only seem to be able to access the applications for which i had shortcuts ...
6
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4answers
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How do I disable app menu in LibreOffice?
How to disable the app menu functionality ("global menu") in LibreOffice, Ubuntu 12.10?
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0answers
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Setting APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH for gtk3 applications does not work
To start the application with the menu enabled in the application and the panel, the following command has to be used:
APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH=1 appname
I recently discovered that this only works for ...
1
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2answers
549 views
How can I make fonts in the top panel smaller?
I can use Ubuntu Tweak to change font size on the background but I can't change this:
Can anyone help?
0
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0answers
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Firefox Nighty 19.0a1 doesn't integrate with the Global Menu Bar (12.04) [closed]
Okay, we all know how the "Normal" Firefox has the Menu Bar (File, Edit, View, etc.,) integrated with the Global menu Bar at the top of the screen, just like every other program in Ubuntu (with the ...
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I want to be able to use the unity menu with Citrix full screen
I use Citrix Reciever at work, with both XenApp and XenDesktop.
Many times at the same time.
Since the unity Menu stil apeirs on the top anyway, I'd like to be able to use it. Now I can see it, but ...
0
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2answers
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Creating Physical Button for Eclipse Juno [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to pin Eclipse to the Unity launcher?
Running 12.04 and I downloaded Eclipse Juno from Eclipse, installed in Programs directory which I had created. How do I create ...
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0answers
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Emacs24: emacsclient doesn't use global application menu [closed]
I noticed that Emacs24 makes use of Unity's global application menu. (I'm using Damien Cassou's Emacs24 snapshots.)
However, it doesn't do that when emacs, emacsclient or emacsclient.emacs24 are run ...
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2answers
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How to get back Applications menu?
I'm using 12.04, classic desktop without effects. Once the indicator-applet-complete (right part of the top panel) had disappeared. I found how to fix it with Alt-Win-RightMouseClick on the panel, ...
3
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1answer
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How can I disable the faded title text in the top panel?
So I'm new to Linux but am basically blown away by Ubuntu 12.04 and could definitely see this becoming my main desktop over time
One small annoyance for me is a tendency for the global menu on the ...
1
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0answers
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How do I turn off global application support Libre Office? [closed]
I am using 12.10 and Libre Office has global menu support turned on by default. Since I use gnome-shell and not Unity, I can't find a way to turn off this "feature".
2
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3answers
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Where is Thunderbird's Tools Menu?
I just successfully upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04, and these instructions appear to be exactly what I want. However, for the life of me, I cannot find Thunderbird's tools menu to import my Evolution ...
5
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1answer
186 views
How to enable app menu in vlc?
Call it a minor annoiance, but I'd really like if vlc used the app menu instead of displaying it in the main window.
Is there a way to correct this behavior?
I don't really know if this would ...
0
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2answers
385 views
How does .desktop file EXEC field work?
It's been several months I'm having this horrible problem. I'm currently using Unity 2D, and I manage my menu entries by using .desktop files, which is tiring. Is there a better way to manage them?
...
1
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2answers
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How do I add a search function to gnome classic (fallback) panel?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 Precise with the GNOME desktop environment. I like using the GNOME Fallback ("Classic") better than the default GNOME (i.e., better than GNOME Shell). The only thing that I ...
0
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2answers
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Categorized menus as it was pre-11.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to access “Applications” menu in Ubuntu Unity Desktop (Ubuntu 11.10)
How can I have menus as it was before unity?
Probably not on the desktop as was ...
0
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1answer
363 views
Thunderbird looses menu in the panel
I have installed the add-ons MinimizedToTray revived 1.0.1 to Thunderbird, as suggested here. Even though the main functionality of hiding TBird to the tray works well, after a while (minutes) on ...
6
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1answer
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Can I have Global Menu within the Gnome Fallback Session?
My Default Unity session is too heavy to my laptop now (4 years old machine) and it's constantly hanging. I installed the fallback session to get more responsiveness of the whole system, but now i ...
2
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0answers
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Global menu stopped working for most applications [closed]
I have Ubuntu 12.04 32 bits and I had been enjoying global menus and HUD since the beginning. However, for some strange reason, I stopped having global menus for most applications and thus no HUD fun ...
0
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1answer
255 views
Can I get gnome-shell's drop-down menus in Unity? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable the global application menu?
Just a quick question, in gnome-shell you get those little white menus that drop down from the title of the application but ...
0
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2answers
352 views
My Gnome 3 in Ubuntu 11.10 is not showing any applications in applications menu?
My Gnome 3 in Ubuntu 11.10 is not showing any applications in applications menu. It is presenting blank menu and showing no applications. What should I do to recover my application shortcuts in ...
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3answers
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Unable to locate package appmenu-gtk3
Yesterday I upgraded my version of Ubuntu. In stead of Gnome I now have the Unity environment. I'm not sure I like Unity better, so I'll give it a probation period to see if it's any good.
What I ...
4
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1answer
275 views
Difference between launching an application from a keyboard shortcut vs the terminal?
What I have observed:
When I type emacs in gnome-terminal, it launches in the same environment, with variables set in .bashrc. If I use a keyboard shortcut to the command emacs, it opens in an ...
