The global application menu provides a menu indicator to put the menu inside the Unity panel.
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How do I disable the global application menu?
I'm fairly excited for Unity, as it looks like a promising new direction for Ubuntu. However, I do have a concern - will it be possible to use Unity without the global menu?
I have my window manager ...
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Can auto-hide for the application menu be turned off in Unity?
Will there be a way to disable auto-hide behavior of global application menu in Unity. While I would prefer to have this behavior disabled by default (as it is bad UX), it looks like it's here to ...
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Menu missing in Lotus notes 8 and Eclipse in Unity
I installed lotus notes 8.5.2 on 10.10 netbook using unity desktop. At first lotus notes showed its menu. Suddenly (not sure if I did something) the menu disappeared. When I start up using gnome ...
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Is it possible to make indicator-appmenu ignore a specific application?
The new indicator-appmenu in Maverick breaks the LyX menu: the application menu is not shown either in the application window nor in the applet. (See Bug report.)
As a workaround while the bug is ...
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How to access “Applications” menu in Ubuntu Unity Desktop
I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 with the new Unity Desktop. I understand that I can access the classic "Applications" menu by switching to Gnome. However, I was wondering if it's possible to access the ...
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No programs or applications show up in dash [duplicate]
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Dash search gives no result
There are no programs on the dash list (seacher on appmenu).
Yesterday I logged into my account and I tried to find a particular program, ...
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How to open “System > Administrator” -menu?
Ive come across many times to need to open the "System > Administrator" -menu, but I havo no clue how? I searched on google that youd need to press ALT + F1 + S, but nothing happens...
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Why doesn't LibreOffice work with the HUD?
So I have tried out a couple daily builds and beta 1, and love HUD. However, currently LibreOffice does not play nice with HUD and I was wondering if there was a way to make it work with HUD. Kinda ...
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Why isn't lo-menubar installed by default in LibreOffice?
Will I face any problems by installing the lo-menubar to give libreoffice global menus in Natty?
I'm wondering why it isn't installed by default. Are there stability problems or anything?
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How to get global application menu for gvim?
Gvim does not have a global menu (appmenu / application menu) in 12.04,
and when starting gvim from a terminal,
the following warning appears in the terminal after 25 seconds:
** (gvim:20320): ...
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Using indicator-appmenu in maximized mode only
I like the mac like global-menu or appmenu whatever you call it. But I was wondering if there is a way that I use it only when I maximize the application window ?
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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, ...
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How to add support for the global menu to a python non-gtk, non-qt app?
I'm looking for good documentation (an example, tutorial, or guide) on how to add global menu support to a non-gtk, non-qt application. (In gtk it works 'magically' for the main menu...).
The ...
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How do I add Matlab to the main menu?
I was trying to add the installed matlab to the menu of Applications under Ubuntu 10.10.
I clicked Gnome-Menu -> Preference -> Main Menu -> Programming -> New Item, where I input the Matlab file ...
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How do I install the global appmenu (mac menu)?
Anyone knows how to install globalmenu on Ubuntu 10.10?
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Mutter: Global menu integration
Is it possible to have Mutter merge the title bar of maximized windows and the panel, like happens with Compiz and Metacity? I want to try to replace Metacity with Mutter in Unity 2D, and so far it ...
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How to get the old menu in Ubuntu 11.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable the global application menu?
I recently upgraded to 11.10 from 10.04. After the upgrade, the menu is shifted to the top column, which is pretty ...
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How do I enable the globalmenu / appmenu on XFCE or LXDE?
I have tried various tricks I could find to install the global menu on xfce and lxde on the latest oneiric, but nothing worked. Does anyone have an idea on how to do that? Thanks.
Here's what I've ...
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How do I disable the global application menu in Adobe Reader 9?
how to disable global menu in Adobe reader? the menu link not shown in global menu.
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Why can't I see the menubar in some applications?
I don't run gnome-panel normally. Most menubars work correctly. However, with wxMaxima and Audacity, they are not showing. When I start gnome-panel and add an appmenu, I can see the menus again.
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How do I remove the application title from global application menu?
I've disabled the global application menu by removing 'indicator-appmenu' via apt. Unfortunately, the window title still appears on the panel bar whenever I mouse over the application.
Does anyone ...
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Is there a shell-independent HUD-like menu search tool for GNOME?
The Ubuntu HUD - you love it or you hate it. Personally I rather like a classic desktop, so I use Xfce and Cinnamon, and I don't want to lose my menu in applications.
But the HUD is pretty awesome ...
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How to use Unity's global menu in GNOME Shell, if possible?
I was woundering is the is a way/possibility to use Unity's global menu with GNOME Shell on Ubuntu 11.10?
It would be really nice to have it.
Does anyone have an idea on how to make this real?
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Does the global application menu support Java applications?
I am a heavy user of Java applications such as Matlab and Maple. Will the global menu support these very important packages?
If not, are there plans to do this?
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Program menu disappeared [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why can't I see the menubar in some applications?
My problem is as follows:
The program menu, the one that has file edit view all that does not display in some ...
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How can I re-enable the global menu in Firefox?
Until recently, Firefox on my machine used the standard Unity global menu. However, recently the menu is no longer global and, strangely, is centered. See this screenshot:
firefox-globalmenu is ...
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How to create appmenu in using python3 and PyQt?
I am looking for a way to create appmenu indicator using python3.2 and pyqt4. Please help me.
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Qt Apps problems in Ubuntu 12.04
I have a few Qt applications on my Ubuntu 12.04 Laptop, and not all of these seem to be running as desired.
The applications in question are Tomahawk, Clementine, Rstudio and Speedcrunch.
Not all ...
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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 ...
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How to remove the menu in the top panel?
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 ...
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How to get back the application menu for LibreOffice after an update?
I do not have the menu bar of LibreOffice in the top panel of my Unity desktop (the Global Menu functionality). Though I have installed lo-menubar.
Those are the characteristics of my system:
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Can't add Sublime Text to the Gnome Shell Dock
I've downloaded Sublime Text for Linux (32bit) and put it in /opt, linked it in /usr/bin and currently I can start it by typing sublime_text in console. Whenever I start it its icon appears in the ...
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Can Wine software use Unity Application Menu?
Wine applications which I used show menu under window top border. Is there any way to use global application menu in Wine applications? Will this function be available in next releases of Wine/appmenu ...
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How can I create an appmenu/DBusmenu using python? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to add support for the global menu to a python non-gtk, non-qt app?
I want to add support for the indicator-appmenu to an application that is not written in one of ...
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How do I get Liferea 1.8 RC to use the global application menu?
I just updated Liferea from 1.6 to 1.8 RC thru PPA.
After the update Liferea disappeared from Unitys Global Message indicator in the top menu.
Also there is no standalone icon in Unity. In Gnome ...
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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 ...
