Questions tagged [globalmenu]
Questions about the global application menu project. This is NOT the global menu shipped in Unity.
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Run a command in a particular user account not in both account User & Administrator [duplicate]
I want perform a command for a particular user not a globally (Admin Account). so how can i perform. as of now I run a command it is run globally in admin account & user account.
suppose I will ...
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How to expand out the application hamburger menu?
I want to turn the hamburger menu in the title bar into something similar to the global menu.
The global menu is great but I can't go to the corner to close the app anymore. I have to waste extra ...
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Does Firefox not support KDE's Global Menu?
Is this true that Firefox doesn't export it's menu to be used by applets like Global Menu on KDE Plasma? I am in denial because literally every GTK app supports it but Firefox doesn't. Heck, even Java ...
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OSX Style global Menu in Plasma 5 (how to show pcmanfm_menu in global menu in plasma while in --desktop mode)?
I use pcmanfm-qt in plasma in "--desktop" mode, so that pcmanfm-qt "becomes" the desktop. Now i want pcmanfm's menu to be exposed to global menu, while pcmanfm only renders the ...
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Is there any way in which I can get back the global menu bar in ubuntu
Im looking for global menu bar in ubuntu. I have fully customized ubuntu to look like macOS but the only thing missing is a global menu bar like this.
I have tried everything like fildem and gnome ...
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KDE - Global Menu - Dual Screen
Hello askubuntu Community,
I use a Plasma 5.21 setup that includes a global menu sitting in a topbar. It works perfectly fine, except when I move a window to the second screen. When I do that the menu ...
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weird - two Ubuntu drives in BIOS?
I have reinstalled Ubuntu on an USB SDD. I have Windows 10 on SDD with my motherboard. The Ubuntu GRUB menu won't show Windows 10.
I have used os-prober. It says "ls: cannot open directory '/boot/...
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In app menubar won't show after removing global menu widget
once I have used global menu widget, and after removing it, whatever I do, the in application menu won't return.
Except create another user.
Actually I know that. I deserved it. XD
Note : On a new ...
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How to use Firefox from 18.04 repositories in Ubuntu 20.04 in order to use Global menu?
Firefox in Ubuntu 18.04 had a special patch to enable global menu, which was dropped in subsequent versions.
I want to install that version in 20.04. One way to do this is to grab the .deb file and ...
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Why is global menu difficult to maintain?
This is a question strictly out of curiosity.
Since Unity was 'discontinued' there has been very little globals menu's around. I know KDE has one that does not always work, and Ubuntu Unity say they ...
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How to use KDE global menu with Firefox?
I would like Firefox to use the global menu on KDE Plasma 5.19 running on X11.
The widget set for both GTK and KDE is Breeze.
I am currently using Kubuntu 20.10, but also have machines running 18.04 ...
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Remove Slack symbol from top panel possible?
I have Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop and when I have Slack running, the symbol is shown in the top panel, see here:
I don't like the symbol when the app is running, how I can remove it?
Please note that ...
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In Kubuntu 20.04, some applications do not use the global menu
I am using Kubuntu 20.04. I added global menu to the panel. Most of the applications are using the global menu perfectly. But Gimp, Inkscape and Texmaker are not using the global menu at all.
How can ...
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GNOME Global Application Menu highlights
I Want a menubar in GNOME 3.20, and have found Gnome Global Application Menu (hud for GNOME). The problem with this extension is, the highlighting stays there, and it unselects the window that you ...
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Global Menu in KDE 5.12 + with Wayland
I use KDE in Wayland, since from 5.13 the main support for X11 will end and Wayland works much better. The only issue I face is KDEs global menu, which I am not able to use, since it is just not ...
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Ubuntu/Gnome: System Menu on all Monitors
so I am using Multi Monitors to have the menus on all monitors, and currently am getting partial success.
My goal is having the EXACT same menu at the top at all times: Activities (Done), App Menu (I ...
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Kubuntu bad spacing in global menu
Hi I'm not sure if it was after an update or a new program installation but my global menu in kubuntu 18.10 is now messed up, is not well spaced out as it was initially.
Screenshot of global menu
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Enable Intellij or Android Studio KDE Global Menu
I've been looking for this for a long time but still I can't get it work.
I tried using Jayatana and activate it in idea.properties like this:
-linux.native.menu=true
-javaagent:/usr/share/java/...
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How to add pull down menu into current window in Gnome
I have ubuntu 18.04 and Gnome 3.28.3 but its very very annoying that I can't have the menus in the current window like so:
Is this possible without switching to mate or cinnamon?
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Global Menu not working with flatpaks and snaps
I am baffled by this. So in Both Ubuntu 18.04 Unity and Gnome the global menu is not working with flatpaks and snaps. In Gnome I have this extension installed https://gitlab.com/lestcape/Gnome-Global-...
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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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Integrate Android Studio with Unity
is there a way to properly integrate Android Studio with Unity Desktop Environment?
I'm not looking for help about how to install android studio on Ubuntu, neither to add a desktop entry in order to ...
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How are global-menus intergrated with Firefox?
How is the global menu added to Firefox? The nightly releases are great but obviously lack Canonical's intergrations. I have tried the Unity Customisations plugin for Firefox that comes with the ...
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plasma desktop - Java IDE for Plasma Global Menu?
I installed KDE Plasma Desktop and I really like it. I like the global menu, but i noticed that so many apps are not compatible with it.
For Java coding, I have always used Eclipse, but even with ...
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Reinstall indicator-appmenu package
I am using Ubuntu 16.04, and I disabled the global menu using the following command:
sudo apt-get remove indicator-appmenu
How can I reactivate it ?
I've tied the command :
sudo apt-get install ...
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How can global menu / HUD be fixed for Audacity in 16.04?
Applications like this become very time consuming without the HUD. But lack of global menu seems to be causing this. It did work on first installation but now it's gone. Reinstalling can make it work ...
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Global menu in PhpStorm on ubuntu 17.04
I'm upgrade my ubuntu 16.10 to 17.04.
Then I deleted manually installed PhpStorm 2017.1.1 and install PhpStorm 2017.1.2 by JetBrains Toolbox
After running PhpStorm, I found that the menu became ...
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Why is there duplicate menu options in global menu on Ubuntu 16.10?
When I open certain apps in ubuntu 16.10 I can see 2 menus appear at the top global menu bar.
For example if I open resource monitor app at the top it displays "resource monitor resource monitor".
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Ubuntu 16.04 Mate - global menu bar is missing
Today I installed Mate on this desktop, which I prefer over Unity as the computer is too slow for the 3D stuff. I've did a dist-upgrade, installed Mate, rebooted, selected the Mate desktop and logged ...
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How can I get my windows' menus to appear on their own row below the titlebar?
I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04. I haven't used Ubuntu for a while and I see various settings have changed again.
In my last Installation (I think it was either a 12.x or 14.x install) I had ...
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TopMenu Applet does not work on Ubuntu MATE 16.04
I have installed Ubuntu MATE 16.04 and I installed mate-applet-topmenu. Then I added the applet to my panel. A separator appeared but it did not show global menu.
I also tried to install libtopmenu ...
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LibreOffice: Document name in title bar?
Is it possible to place the title of the working document in the title bar of LibreOffice Writer like in MS Office?
Would certainly make switching between similar-looking documents easier.
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Global Menu shrinks appname
So this is not a question on how to have the Global Menu always visible, but instead, how to make the Global Menu to show the full appname.
If it's too long it gets faded out:
How would I be able to ...
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Is there any way to use global menu in Xubuntu 16.04?
I'm using Xubuntu 16.04 on a laptop, which means a confined screen space and a desperate need for global menu. I've tried I've tried topmenu (the classic option), but it looks like it hasn't been ...
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ubuntu 16.04 global menu problem
Some apps (Terminal, Rhythmbox, Nautilus..) doesn't have global menu, when I reset Unity (unity --reset) global menu is back but when I restart my computer the problem is still here. Upgraded from 14....
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Global Menu Bar Gnome3
Is there any way to get global menus in Ubuntu gnome like in unity? Or is there a way I could install the unity panel on the gnome shell?
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Did Firefox (v 39.0) drop support for "Global Menu"? [closed]
... and if so, how to fix / re-enable support? Or would this be fixed by subsequent point releases of Firefox?
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Application's Menu Doesn't work in Ubuntu 15
I have this Ubuntu-15 problem. I disabled global menu bar to switch to the window's title bar using ALL SETTINGS-APPEARANCE-BEHAVIOR. It switched OK, but now, for example, when I use NetBeans's window ...
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Chrome Flash Player Extension Keeps Bringing Up Black Bar 14.04
Hi there I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and am trying to watch cartoons while I do some work (I have it running through a second monitor). I am watching out of the Google Chrome native client. Every time I ...
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Add Global Menu to MATE 1.8.1 (ubuntuMATE) [closed]
I just installed ubuntuMATE 14.04; honestly, I love it.
However, I'm missing the global menu from Unity and older mate distros.
Does anyone have any idea on how to get Indicator Applet Appmenu ...
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Is there a way to replace Unity Dash with a classic style applications menu
Love this site, just joined because I finally figured out exactly how I want Ubuntu to behave and I haven't been able to find a way to do this. I know there are things like the classic menu indicator,...
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File browser window in the "Ubuntu Tour" has no menu bar. Is this real?
File browser window of new (14.04?) Ubuntu has no menu bar across the top like old one. Don't want to go backward.
So it seems a bad idea to upgrade to the new Ubuntu.
Or does the file browser ...
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Why does menu transparency mess up my notification area?
I used Unity Tweak Tool to set the menu to be transparent but now my notification area gets all confused after it changes:
As you can see it looks like it's not clearing earlier images from the ...
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Pulling down on the title bar does not resize window?
Previous versions of Ubuntu had a neat feature where I could drag down the title bar (on the global menu) of any window to resize it (to get a smaller window), but I see that this feature is lacking ...
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Firefox-like Global Menu Integration
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. The original Firefox integrate with Unity perfectly. I want to use Palemoon, but unfortunately, it has no integration with unity/global menu. I tried to look at the default ...
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How to disable autohide in global menu? [duplicate]
I am using the newest version of Ubuntu 14.04 and I like the global menu bar feature but I want the menus to always be visible not only when I hover my mouse over it. Is there a way to do that? ...
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Global Menu Bar wont refresh?
While the question itself may sound vague, basically what is happening is when I minimize an application (firefox for example) all the options as well as the option to minimize maximize or close stay ...
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Use aliases in the Alt-F2 dialog
In the .bashrc file, one can add an alias for a command, say
alias geditm = 'gedit --display=D1'
Now I can run geditm in a terminal and have gedit open in display D1. I am curious if there is a way ...
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Getting a Global Menu on Xubuntu 13.10
How do I get a true global menu on Xubuntu or Ubuntu/Gnome 3 Classic 13.10?
I don't want the Unity autohiding menu, just a horizontal global menu that lives in a toolbar on top of the screen. I know ...
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Menu Items unclickable in many software
The global menu items of many software in Ubuntu 13.10 are unclickable. Firefox menu items work fine, while GNOME Terminal global menu items are all unclickable except for "Change Profile" and "Set ...
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