Questions tagged [menu]
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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How to set the right click menu popped out after the right click being done in GNOME 3 [duplicate]
I use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and GNOME 3 and I found that different from
Windows. When I press the right mouse button, the right click menu gets
out. After I release that button, if the mouse pointer is on ...
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Empty menu entries (instead of greyed out) in some programs
I encountered the problem described in the title on Ubuntu 18.10 using the Unity desktop. I've tried restoring defaults on Unity Tweak Tool in case my theme was causing the problem, but it didn't fix ...
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Restore Xfce menu after installing program from flatpak
I'm running Xubuntu (Ubuntu Studio which is based on Xubuntu), and I somehow messed up my applications menu. I had the original menu, with the favorites on the left side and the applications grouped ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 menus not displaying properly and desktop background black
The menu icons on my ubuntu 16.04 are not displaying correctly.
For example the sliding bars are missing from the sound menu below.
Also my Ubuntu background keeps going black.
Output of xrandr
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How to always show top-menu instead of showing on-hover?
Currently Ubuntu terminal shows the folder path on the top-bar
I need to hover over the top of screen to show the menu as shown in screenshot
How do I always show that menu always so I dont need to ...
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How can I configure the applications menu in KDE?
How can I configure the applications menu in KDE (Menu -> Computer section)?
I want to add some items such as: mount and system monitor.
Updated:
What I do.
Open file .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma....
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New 18.04 install, Sublime Text 3 menu layout is broken
I installed 18.04 on a new laptop the other day and I'm trying to get it in shape to replace an older one. I installed Sublime Text 3, and while it works it has obvious layout problems:
The menus, ...
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Can anyone help to create such menu? [closed]
The script should offer a menu with the following options:
● To create a backup copy of a script file.
The name of the backup copy should have backup after the name of the script and be date ...
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context menu in thunar does not work properly
Running Xubuntu Bionic. After an update of the system that did not terminate well I cannot use my personal thunar context menus :
My context menu for searching a file in a directory does not show the ...
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Grub menu error Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Good morning, I started my computer this morning to find the Grub_ menu prompt error I assume.
I tried the boot-repair option with no luck. I am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS only no dual boot and my main ...
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Fonts in embedded wine
Glad that notepad++ is now available in Ubuntu. And no, I won't switch to NotepadQQ -- its features are not nearly as many as in Notepad++
As far as I understand, it is run via sort of embedded Wine.
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How to show in menu apps of different desktop environments?
I have installed different environment flavours (Unity, Mate, Xfce, KDE...) on my machine. I have set on login to use Xfce. But there are some apps/software in the other environments which I would ...
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Install fbmenugen: where are the perl-linux-desktopfiles and the perl-file-desktopentry dependencies
I found this nice script for generating the menu on fluxbox: https://github.com/trizen/fbmenugen
But for my needs I need to find the libraries perl-linux-desktopfiles and perl-file-desktopentry. Do ...
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What to do with .desktop files that comes in tar.gz
I recently downloaded Blender from its website and when I unpacked the tar.gz archive I found out that there is a blender.desktop file. I know that it is used for creating menu or desktop shortcuts. I ...
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Gimp not in menu 18.04
Gimp is not in the the menu, it can be found by searching or /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop, the file is an executable. So gimp can only be launched from the terminal.
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Is there a way to get the file menu on the top bar? [duplicate]
After upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04 I see there is a menu on top that supplies a way to quit the selected app, but this seems half implemented.
I would imagine the main (file++) menu could be ...
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how to enter GRUB menu during/after start up [duplicate]
After intitial installation, Ubuntu 18.04 boots to blank screen...and I mean blank... no cursor, no splash screen, nothing.
The install process went flawlessly, but after initial reboot, it always ...
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Applications overlay command
I'm trying to work out what function call opens the Applications overlay in Ubuntu 18.04 - this is the function call that runs when the Super+a shortcut is pressed in Ubuntu 18.04.
Applications ...
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Removing categories list from applications menu
I have the applications menu from GNOME on my desktop:
I want to hide the categories menu somehow, even if that means editing the applications menu file itself.
Is this possible without modifying ...
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evince menus missing/scattered
Recently, the evince menus in the unity global menu bar have mostly gone missing on both my desktop and my laptop. Currently, there is only one pretty useless menu, "Document Viewer", in that bar.
I ...
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How do I theme the whisker menu in Xubuntu 16.04 LTS?
I'm running Xubuntu 16.04 with whisker menu and trying to change the theme of whisker menu. I have read several tutorials but without success. I have in my home directory a .gtkrc-2.0 file with this ...
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firefox menu and add-on button not working. (Similar problem in okular)
since my last update I can no longer access the menu button or the add-on (using uMartix and uBlock) buttons of firefox. When I klick the button indicates activation (shading changes) but now menu is ...
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How to disable right click on desktop?
I'm running ubuntu 16.04 and I want to disable the menu that appears when you right-click on your desktop. Actually, I know I can run the command line "xmodmap" to "disable" the right click of the ...
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No menu buttons in Kdenlive (Ubuntu 18.04 - Gnome)
Weirdly the menu buttons disappeared.
Kdenlive 18.04.2 flatpak or Kdenlive 18.04.1 appimage. Both experience the same issue with the menu. Not the old Kdenlive 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1 though. What could ...
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Ubuntu Budgie - Desktop right click menu
Is there a way I can add another app the the Ubuntu Budgie - Desktop right click menu the same way "Open Tilix Here" has been added?
Sorry it may be a real dumb question but I can't figure it out.
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How can I keep this menu?
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04, when I set the scaling factor to 1.25 in the GNOME tweak tool, this menu shows up in the top panel, but It hides when I set the scaling factor to 1.00.
This menu is very ...
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MATE on 18.04 panel disappeared -- error on reset
I have re-installed mate desktop environment, but this issue persists. No panels, no menu.Hotkeys are responsive and GUI applications load without issue.
dconf editor browses the panel without ...
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For Ubuntu 18.04, is there a way to show drop-down menus for a certain applications in a menu bar?
This applies to Nautilus, Gedit, and others. I would like to select, for example, Copy and Paste from a drop down menu, but I am forced to use either the right-click menu or Ctrl-C Ctrl-V shortcuts, ...
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How to add Top Bar menu; File, View, History, Tools...for applications in 18.04? [duplicate]
I am aware Unity is no longer the default desktop and is replaced by GNOME desktop starting 18.04 LTS. Since 15.04 I have been using Unity.
Now I want to use the default GNOME desktop for 18.04 ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 menu outlook changed completely after a reboot
The outlook of my Ubuntu 16.04 menu changed completely and unexpectedly after a reboot.
It used to have a side-menu of items on the left, with instant access to search bar (top icon of that sidebar): ...
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Super key and the main menu in Lubuntu
Is there any way to make Lubuntu 18.04 pop up the main menu when I press the Super key? Most distros do this out of the box.
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How do I restore menu items in STEAM from the taskbar icon?
Using Steam in Ubuntu 16.04 and there are no drop-down menu items when I click on the Steam Icon in the taskbar using Unity. Steam works, but just no drop-down menu items. How do I fix this?
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How can I have an application menu like macOS?
This is how application menu on my Mac.
And this is on ubuntu 18.04.
There is only a menu item quit inside Pycharm on the top bar, other menu items like File, Edit, View are on the different bar, ...
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VLC player has gigantic menu text and buttons, how to make them smaller?
could you tell me how to make VLC players text smaller on my TV, things seem to get bigger on it.
Thanks
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Where is the LXDE logout menu?
I'm looking for the LXDE logout menu and banner picture.
This useful question and answer How do I change Lubuntu's logout image? is perfect for Lubuntu, but I am using LXDE over Ubuntu.
That ...
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Xournal toolbar abnormally scaled
I was taking notes during a class, when I suddenly got distracted, and the moment after this is what presented itself to my astonished self. The very same window, but with the toolbar abnormally ...
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Add Airplane mode to System menu
How to add the airplane mode to system menu? quick shortcuts.
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Menu and other theme elements displaying weird in applications (e.g. Terminal, Settings) on upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10
I upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 17.10 and now my terminal menus look like this:
I don't know if this is related or not but additionally, when I go into my system settings to change anything, ...
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Empty lines on top of drop-down menus (Ubuntu 16.04)
When I open some drop down menus, like choosing file type in Open Office or image resolution in Gimp, the first few items are just empty lines, and they only disappear after scrolling down, plus the ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop Menu Bar and upper panel missing, windows cannot be dragged, closed etc [duplicate]
I spent the entire day yesterday til 3am trying to fix this, and all the possible solutions you can find on the web just don't work for me.
I agreed to some regular updates on Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS, all ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 (Arty) can't open terminal and sidebar
could you please help me?
Menubar/sidebar disappeared and I cannot launch Terminal. I see some icons on the desktop and I can run programs by clicking on files.
CTRL+ALT+T is not working either.
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Question about select menus in bash
Before you tell me "there are tons of guides on this already" know that I actually have a select menu made and it is working.
However there is one thing that is driving me nuts. The way I have this ...
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Two grub menus overriding
i started having these 2 overriding grub menus all of a sudden
the purple one works .. while as the black one is just like an image
Image showing my problem
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What is a shortcut for window menu bar in GNOME shell?
I can't find any documentation or tips for shortcut, that will show menu bar as follows:
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Libreoffice menu text not displaying correctly
This question has a similar problem but no solution and mine differs from it slightly: Libreoffice text not displaying properly on ubuntu 16.04
Installed the IBM Plex font a while back and use it on ...
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Program sub menus dark gray on black, thus illegible
When using a program, for example Libre Writer, when I click on file, open, then in the Open menu box I have the opportunity to change the file type from "All files" to a specific file type, when I ...
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Ubuntu 17.10: Unclickable menus on JDownloader 2
After upgrading from 17.04 to 17.10, and consequent switch from Unity to Gnome Shell, all the menus of JDownloader 2 became unclickable.
By "unclickable" I don't mean disabled, but that I cannot ...
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Some application menus not present after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 w. MATE
This problem is similar to others posted here, but after some searching I can't find an answer, and no one has asked exactly this question as far as I can see.
I upgraded a VM (VMware) to Ubuntu 16....
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Ubuntu 17.10 VirtualBox File, etc. menus don't work
I've been running VirtualBox on Ubuntu for years. I just upgraded to 17.10 with a clean install. I installed VirtualBox from the Software Center and then removed and reinstalled it using apt.
The ...
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MATE 17.10 -- any way to get window shade (roll up) on the window menu
This used to be fairly standard - many years ago. I see this:
How to do window roll-up/shade in 16.04?
But I haven't been able to make any of the solutions work for MATE.
Is there any tweak other ...