I Updated my Ubuntu from 17.10 to 18.04 now the Application menu on top is not showing the drop down when clicked on it.
The Places Menu is Working but the left Applications Drop down is not working:
Found a related post but no solution
4 Answers
You have to activate "hot corners" with gnome-tweak-tools.
It worked for me.
I found this solution here : https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6/applications-menu/
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a. what's gnome-tweak-tools - are you referring to Gnome Tweak Tool? b. what's that link got to do with gnome-tweak-tools? Mar 28, 2020 at 14:48
cd /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
Then edit metadata.json
sudo nano metadata.json
Edit the Shell Version
{
"extension-id": "apps-menu",
"uuid": "[email protected]",
"gettext-domain": "gnome-shell-extensions",
"name": "Applications Menu",
"description": "Add a category-based menu for applications.\nThis extension is part of Classic Mode and is officially supported by GNOME. Please do not report bugs using the form below, use GNOME's GitLab instance instead.",
"original-authors": [ "[email protected]", "[email protected]" ],
"shell-version": [ "3.28.1" ], // add your shell version
"url": "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions"
}
Press ctrl+o to save the file and ctrl+x to exit
Get Shell Version by typing : gnome-shell --version
Then Logout and Login again, This fixed my issue.
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Thanks, same problem here, extension has 3.28 version. I changed to 3.28.1 and this worked perfectly! May 15, 2018 at 12:21
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I changed it from 3.28 to 3.28.1. Did not work for me. Still broken. Anything else I can try?– MathKidJun 5, 2018 at 22:58
I had the same problem. Go to Tweaks,then Top Bar, and "turn on" the Activities Overview Hot Corner. Applications menu will appear.
The combination of the the two answers by Rakesh Roy and PhJ worked for me. You have to both activate the hot corners and also change shell version to 3.28.1.
sudo apt install gnome-menus?gnome-menus is already the newest version (3.13.3-11ubuntu1).