Questions about interface menus, placement and addition of them. Menus are a common user interface feature that allow users to interact with applications.
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Winetricks not in dash or menu - Ubuntu 13.04
I installed new Ubuntu 13.04 and Wine 1.5.29 trough ppa. But I noticed that on older Ubuntu versions, after installation of wine and winetricks (they install together now), there is a "Winetricks" ...
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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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Unity HUD/Menu loses menu sometimes
Not all the time but intermittently Unity will drop the menu from the HUD. Most often this is with GIMP but it has happened to other programs too. The menu choices are there but the content of the ...
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How to make the top bar menu always visible? [duplicate]
I just recently started working on Ubuntu, coming from OSX.
I work a lot with the computer so I naturally want everything to look and work the way I want it to.
Ubuntu has not let me down yet, but ...
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USB Flash drive boots just fine but grub.cfg file is missing
I have BackBox Ubuntu installed on a USB flash drive and it boots and runs just fine. However I would like to modify the boot menu but can't find a grub.cfg file. Therefore grub-update will not work. ...
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menu bar and launcher missing in ubuntu 13.04
i have upgraded ubuntu desktop from 12.10 to 13.04 since then i cant see the menu bar or launcher , but i am able to open the terminal using keyboard shortcut
when i use the guest log in there is no ...
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Menu Bar in Top of Desktop not visible for some Appliations like Rhythmbox
When starting and activating "Rhythmbox" there is no menubar available since installing Ubuntu 13.04 using an existing user profile of a home-partition from previous versions of ubuntu.
When i create ...
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Download menu pops up after every new tab is opened
I recently installed Dropbox on Ubuntu, the install went perfectly fine and Dropbox is functioning normally. However, now every time I open a new tab in Firefox I am promoted with the download menu ...
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How to put a (Start) Menu button on Fluxbox Toolbar
I often run programs maximized (leaving no desktop area). I want to be able to use my mouse alone to open the menu, and my mouse has no scroll wheel. I'm just going for a simple old school windows ...
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Can't find Ubuntu 12.04 on boot menu
So I installed Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows XP on my netbook via a usb (since it doesn't have a DVD/CD drive).
At the end of the installation, I got an error saying the bootloader couldn't be ...
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Why can't I access applications by right clicking on the Ubuntu Icon? [closed]
I upgraded my system from 12.04 to 13.04
All I get is a search box that never goes anywhere. It appears to be in an infinite search loop or something. Clicking on the icons at the bottom of the panel ...
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battery icon / power indicator not shown in menu bar after upgrade to 12.04
Since the upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 the battery icon / power indicator is not shown any more in the menu bar.
I went to 'system settings'-->'power' and tried to set 'show battery status in menu ...
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GUI for editing Menu in Xubuntu
I see that Xubuntu has package Gnome-menus, but I cannot find the command to run the editor it should contain. I found a small editor but it does not allow new entries and alacarte tries to install ...
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Can't seem to get a live pen to boot on my laptop
Specs:
989,5 MB ram
Intel atom CPU N2600 @ 1.60GHz x 4
Mesa X11
32 bit flavor
312.2 GB
Laptop's outside is carbon fiber.
Tried putting a live usb pen with fedora in it,but doesn't seem to show the ...
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Will windows 8 work after i install Ubuntu 12.04?
I had searched and found many GRUB related problem after installing windows 8 over ubuntu or ubuntu over windows 8.So i fear to install ubuntu 12.04.
So What is the measures i need to take while ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 How I get Menu options like Win*?
I am very new to Linux, trying to replace Windows 7 with a flavor of Linux, two of my Cyber frieds advised me to get Ubuntu. I got it (13.04 GNOME) and burnt on USB, boot from USB and have a very nice ...
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Unity menu bar volume control gone in 13.04
It was there in 12.10, but now it's gone. How do I get it back, please?
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is there an app to add change or reconfigure the taskbar menu to openbox, debian, or ubuntu
I would like to find an app that would allow you to choose which style of menu to use in the taskbar. For instance, I would like to see something like this:
Debian menu ---->
Ubuntu ...
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nVidia Driver and optimus [duplicate]
i have an asus K53DS Laptop running Ubuntu 12.10 and windows 7, with an intel hd 3000 and and nVidia 610M. I have tried both the additional drivers utility and sudo apt-get install nvidia-current. ...
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What are the choices for the Ubuntu desktop GUI and how do I enable them?
I am new to Ubuntu and have installed the 12.10 in VM on my laptop. I've installed the Vmware tools as well. However, the VM boots to the command-line. A few questions:
What are the choices of ...
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I am running Lucid, Ubuntu one is installed but I don't have a menu item to run it
I don't know how to run it from the terminal. I tryed unity --reset, a command I found in a response to a similar question, but got the error message No command 'unity' found.
Thanks for any ...
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How to customize files context menu in Xubuntu XFCE Thunar file manager?
I generally prefer XFCE desktop environment of Xubuntu, but I found its files right-click context menu too humble (no option to compress/decompress files for example, and I'd like some my very special ...
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Disable the autohide feature in the ubuntu menubar
Is there any way to prevent the menu items in the global menu bar from hiding until mouseover? I really like the idea of the menubar, but it really gets me that the items disappear. Is there a way to ...
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Remove menu entries from indicator-applet-complete
I would like to remove shutdown entry from indicator-applet-complete in gnome-classic session in Ubuntu 12.04. Is there a way to achieve that? I don't want to prevent shutdown but just remove entry so ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 taskbar menu not showing
When I hover the mouse other the top left corner of the taskbar in ubuntu 12.10, I don't get any menu anymore. Before I used to get File,... Can you please tell me how to get it back?
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What is the default configuration for the XFCE menu?
I accidentally messed up my xfce-applications.menu file in /etc/xdg/menus ..... :(
Does anyone know what the default configuration is for this file?
Let's hope I learn my lesson of messing with the ...
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programs not showing anymore on the left of the screen
I had installed VLC, which was showing on left-hand side of the screen, but after a reboot I don't see it anymore, as is the case with gparted, which I alsoinstalled to be able to change a label of a ...
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How to access an application from the System menu
I just setup PHPStorm on Ubuntu and it says it can be accessed via the "System Menu" but I can't figure out where that is in Ubuntu 12.10.
I used gnome-desktop-item-edit to create a launcher icon. ...
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Menu: highlight as you type
In windows (or other linux environments like openbox) , when you have a program menu, context menu, applications menu, start menu or whatever you can press any key on you keyboard to highlight the ...
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When I log in I can't do anything! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unity doesn’t load, no Launcher, no Dash appears
Ok right when I login to Ubuntu 12.10 installed via Windows installer it [Ubuntu 12.10] shows the desktop background but ...
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how to add programs to ubuntu menus
i'm just new to ubuntu and i need to know how to add programs like sublime text to my ubuntu gui menus. sublime doens't come with an installer - you just download the tar file and extract it.
i ...
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How can I get into burg menus? (12.10)
I'm trying to make burg use a theme. I've already got burg working fine on mbr and installed few themes using Super Boot Manager but I can't access any of the menus like the one needed to make burg ...
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gnome desktop menu layout problem
I have added a 'Quick Setup' sub-menu of 'System' desktop menu.
I want this sub-menu to contains some desktop files within two sections, separated with a separator.
I need the first part to contains ...
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unity top menu keyboard shortcuts for desktop alone, no programs running: Unity 2D vs 3D
This is a problem with Unity 2D on 12.04. More advanced 3D has no such issue.
Alt+F1 accesses the launcher menu, with arrow keys to navigate the list (side menu).
Alt+F10 accesses the top bar in an ...
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Google Chrome removes itself from Menu on reboot
Chrome removes itself from the Internet menu every time I reboot. How can I fix this? The only way to get it back is to reinstall Chrome. Is this a Dev issue or a general error?
I am using Ubuntu ...
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why my desktop file with custom category also appears in “other” submenu?
I have a regular desktop file which contains a Categories=X-My-Custom-Category; entry , and a custom menu file which includes this X-My-Custom-Category category. So the menu entry appears as expected ...
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File, Edit buttons have dissapeared from ubuntu desktop
It used to be that I could go up to the top of my desktop and there would be a file, edit etc. Now when I move my cursor over the words "Ubuntu Desktop" nothing happens. Also the "Add a launcher" ...
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How do I toggle an application's menu?
is it possible to toggle (show/hide) the appmenu ? I've disabled the globalmenu, because i don't like the behavior.
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Awesome WM menu missing Firefox
After sudo apt-get install awesome awesome-extra and logging into it (with no previous configuration that I know of), there's no menu entry for Firefox. All my other stuff is there - Mutt, Meld, ...
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How to get Openbox as kde's window manager
I successfully installed Openbox on my laptop running Kubuntu 12.04
but when I login using the kde/openbox session, the desktop icons of kde, show me an
"open with ?" pop up, while the kmenu is almost ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 application toplevel menu mnemonics not available
Under prior versions of Ubuntu (not sure which) an Alt-key combination activates the application menu and show a corresponding sub-menu. For example, pressing Alt-F from most applications expands the ...
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Ubuntu has been removed but still shows up in boot menu [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu as a dual-boot with my Windows 7 PC and then later removed Ubuntu (by deleting the partition and also by clicking 'Uninstall Ubuntu' in the Windows 7 control panel).
However when ...
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How do you add “open in terminal” to the right-click mouse menu for folders/directories?
I would like to add it to the default menu (mouse right-click)
Like I want to right click on a folder and open it in the terminal.
I don't want to have to find the directory in the terminal.
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How to remove Mathematica menu from xfce applications menu?
How can I remove the Wolfram Mathematica menu from the Xfce applications menu? The Mathematica menu doesn't show up in alacarte... I'm using Xubuntu 12.10 64-bit.
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How to change the Top bar's icon color
The power, wireless, sound, and battery icon are black on my Top bar. I am wondering how I can change the color of these icons to a lighter color.
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Unity has disappeared
I realise that this question has been asked before, the best example being here (Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears).
I should mention I have never used Ubuntu before today, and it ...
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Why can't I easily open .py files with IDLE using right click?
I have visited this question and tried everything mentioned with no success:
How do I set IDLE as default editor for python scripts
Ubuntu 12.04
Python 2.7
IDLE(Using Python-2.7)
When I ...
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Windows 'like' Start Menu
Is there any Start Menu (that I can use along with Gnome 3) that looks like traditional Windows Start Menu? If so, It's also possible to see all open applications on the "Taskbar"?
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How can I have the applications listed on an application menu be invoked on a remote system?
I can invoke an application via a command line in a terminal emulator:
$ ssh -X rome xeyes
I can also invoke an application from a GUI application menu on a panel. I can have two GUI application ...
