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Commonly referred to as the Panel in Unity and GNOME desktop environments, except for cases in which it is used to describe a true menu bar in an application.

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Configure Unity to show the full app name in menu bar

Is it possible to configure the Unity menu bar to not truncate the app name in the menu bar. If that is not possible, can the length allowed for the app name be adjusted? Edit I am trying to find ...
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Menu bar hover not working after menu already open

This is a bit confusing to explain but I will do my best. I recently upgraded from 16.04 to 16.10 and the behavior of my menu bar has changed slightly. So before when I would click on a menu drop ...
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Unity menu bar into title bar integration stopped working for gnome-terminal

Today when I started gnome-terminal, the menu bar was not integrated into the title bar as usually. Only the Terminal menu point is correctly integrated, all others show up in a separate menu bar. ...
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Always show menu even in unfocused windows

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. Recently I found out, that I can enable to always show the menu in the title bar of a window by using this console command: gsettings set com.canonical.Unity always-show-menus ...
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Strange Menu Bar

More often than not, when I boot into Ubuntu, the menu bars are completely white and non-transparent. Many of the icons are different too. All my folders and jar files are also just white sheets of ...
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integrate wine menu bars with ubuntu

I've seen that it is possible to integrate Java Swing menu bars with the Unity Panel here. Is there anyway to do the same with Windows applications running with Wine?
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Menu and Title bars have disappeared

My menu and title bars have disappeared. All was well until I started my HP Probook 4520s this morning. I can get to settings by right-clicking on the desktop and all seems well. I have installed ...
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Menu bar has disappeared 14.10 - nvidia

I had some issues on upgrade 14.04->14.10 that others have reported with nvidia drivers failing to update, but it was working fine. I just rebooted and the menu bar is missing, there are desktop ...
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How to let Virtualbox guest capture the full screen (including system bar area)?

I am using a Windows 7 (64 bit) guest with an Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit) host. I just recently upgraded to Virtualbox 4.3.16 r95972, although this problem appeared before upgrade--at the very least in the ...
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Dark menu item on dark menu background

I recently decided to go back to Ubuntu's default "Ambiance" theme in Unity, but doing so resulted in dark text on dark menus (like the one in the attachment), which I find hard to read! This only ...
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missing menubars in all applications Ubuntu 22.04

Recently, all the top menubars in all applications have disappeared. Below are examples from Konsole and Libreoffice; the same absence of the top menubar appears in all applications without any ...
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How to customize the system menu on Ubuntu 20.04?

I have a problem with "gnome-control-center" when I reinstalled "gnome-control-center" I lost icons from the system menu on top-right corner. I use Ubuntu 20.04 and can't find a ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 problem setting gnome terminal title

I am trying to set a custom title on the terminal similar to this question: How to change Gnome-Terminal title? However, the "PROMPT_COMMAND" answer isn't working, or it's being overwritten ...
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Edit "Places" in main menu, Ubuntu 18.04 with Gnome Classic

When I left-click on the "Main Menu" icon on my control panel (if that's what we call it) it pulls up a menu with sub-menus for "System Tools" etc. but also one called "Places&...
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Ubuntu 20.04 System Menu shutdown buttons turn into Dropdown

I have just installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my laptop, previously using 19.04. I've noticed that previously, there are buttons on the system menu for settings, logout and turn off: Now, it shows an ...
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How to change color of the top bar (including menu bar) of terminal in 18.04.3?

I'm using 18.04.3, how do I change the top bar and menu bar's color in terminal? I don't like the default one.
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Ubuntu Budgie Menu is Messed Up

My menu list is totally a mess. I couldn't find broken menus from the Menu editor. How can I find those broken files and remove unwanted items?
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Virtual Box Menu Bar not appearing even after using fixes

I'm currently trying to set up VirtualBox with Ubuntu (18.04.1-desktop-amd64) on macOS, however, I'm not able to get the menu bar to appear no matter what fixes I try to apply. So far I have tried ...
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How to configure desktop and toolbar menu to be the same to all users

I use UbuntuStudio 18.04.1 LTS. I want to know if I can to set the desktop and toolbar menu to be exactly the same to all the users of the computer. I'm talking about when I start the system with my ...
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Missing menu, application bar and windows buttons -16.04 116

Not sure what happened, if it is related to some level of upgrade or something else, but I can no longer access/see the menu and applications bar. I can't also minimize, move or adjust size of any ...
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The style of menubar and right-click context menu is gone for all gnome apps

The style of menubar and right-click context menu is gone for all gnome apps. For example gnome-calculator, eog were broken, but gitk is good. Here's the screenshot. I've tried to re-install gnome-...
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Synaptic menu bar action icons inconsistent

Hi all, two of the action icons - "Mark All Upgrades" and "Apply" - on my Synaptic package manager menu bar are different. I would like them to be like the "Reload", "Properties" and "Search" buttons. ...
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How to remove the panel's menu-bar, and decorations for all local windows under Gnome?

I'm running Gnome version 3.4.1 and the script in charge of disabling menu-bar and decorations will run locally (no sudoing). It might have to do with gconftool-2, gsettings or compiz (all available ...
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Application Menu in different place after elevating privileges

I am on Ubuntu 16.04. I have set my application menus (file, edit, view, help etc.) to be in window's title bar and always visible. (see here) When I run applications like bleachbit or gedit or ...
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Application's upper menu bar does not merge with the Panel when window is full size

Is anyone else having this problem on Ubuntu 16.04?
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How to stop menu bar appearing in full screen mode when switch desktops?

In Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity I have multiple desktops enabled and several applications running in full screen mode (Firefox and terminal). When I switch from one to another the menu bar appears for ...
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Some applications can't show up in Panel on Ubuntu 16.04

Nautilus, gedit, gvim, LibreOffice, Audacious and gimp have no application menu so that I can't find File,Edit, etc.. But Google Brower, Firefox and Okular is ok. No menu bar display: Has menu bar ...
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How to show the menus for a window in the window's title bar in KDE Plasma 5

I installed both the 'appmenu-qt' and 'appmenu-qt5' packages on a fresh install of Kubuntu 15.04. Then I looked in 'System Settings > Application Style', but found no options to enable the appmenu. ...
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ADT Bundle's Menus Does Not Open on 13.10

I download Android Bundle 64bit to my 64bit Ubuntu 13.10. Installation was correct. Bundle opens properly but when I try to use top menus of Eclipse they don't open. How I can solve this problem?
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KDE top panel, always visible, not functioning,

Just updated the system to Kubuntu 14.04, the top panel which is set to 'always visible' is covering the windows, hiding the close, min, max buttons. It should have the top of the window fixed ...
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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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How to reinstall gnome classic clock in 16.04

I had a problem with my menu-bar clock and date after some wrong fiddling the clock disappeared. I couldn't figure out how to reinstall it. I did see receive some suggestions, but none of them worked ...
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How can I stop windows opening under the LH menu bar?

Sometimes, not always, a window will open or expand, with no action on my part, such that it is under the left hand menu bar/panel. If I'm lucky I can reduce/minimise the window then expand it and ...
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Windows in background end up behind the application bar

Sometimes windows randomly expand larger than the display area and can be seen in transparency behind the application bar (the one that is by default on the left). Running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, ...
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How can I set my Ubuntu menu to never have the "Power Off / Log Out" section collapsed?

When I click into the menu in the top right corner, I want to see the Power section already expanded like this: ...instead of this:
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How to hide these icons on the menu bar after Ubuntu installation

After installation of Ubuntu 22.10 I decided to hide all those icons on my side menu bar, but there is no way to do this. When I press right-click there are usually two options: "New window" ...
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Menu bar and context menu are missing from some apps on Ubuntu 22.04

I have got a problem in Skype and Slack on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. Perhaps this problem exists in other applications as well. As you may see in the following screenshots, the menu bars and context menus ...
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play/pause of spotify disappeared from sound menu on menu bar

Up to later last year, I could control play/pause/skip and see now playing from the volume menu on the right side of the menu bar. It suddenly disappeared after updating spotify to 1.1.77.643....
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Lost menu bar on all programs

All of my programs have either lost the menu bar or it shows up in my panel(as in VLC). Is there some global setting causing that?
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Some main-menu drop-down-items visibly faulty

2: Screen-ruler image: https://imgur.com/qpvIQTk.jpg Ubuntu v. 18.04 LTS OS. Lately display weird, unusual partially greyed-out main-menu drop-down-items, concerning: „GParted“ and „Screen-ruler“ (...
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all menus, icons ,programs & folders (desktop or program menu) is invisible & not opening in ubuntu 20.04

UBUNTU 20.04 issue : all the icons & folders (desktop or program menu) is invisible & not opening (including terminal), however pointing the cursor makes them identifiable.This happened after ...
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Where can I find the code of the lock screen button in the menu?

Where can I find the code of the lock screen button in the menu? I need the code about what happens when it click.
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Ubuntu 16.04 Display Setting while Ubuntu 18.4 scalling is missing, Where is the Scalling?

Here I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I can adjust the scaling. In 18.4 LTS the scaling is missing?????
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How to hide KDE app menubar on Unity to prevent double menubar?

How can I hide the KDE application menubar in Kdenlive? I'd like to just have on; the Unity menubar. This is Ubuntu 16.04 and Kdenlive 15.12.3.
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Title and menu bar only works with sudo in Ubuntu 14.04

I have this strange issue. Let me explain: If I launch a Leafpad instance with leafpad command line (as an example), it shows like this: If on the contrary, I do the command sudo leafpad the window ...
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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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No menu in some applications

Suddenly in some application Ubuntu stopped showing the menu bar (having buttons for maximize, minimize, close) and also it only starts them on the top left corner, and without the menu bar moving ...
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How to remove the network icon from the menu bar?

I clicked on the WiFi Network symbol in Applications to many times and I now have 8 Network connection icons in my menu bar. I didn't realize till to late that it was adding them to the menu bar. I ...
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How to copy my home directory into another user?

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I think one of the updates damaged something. I now have no menus. I did discover that I can create a second user. This user has all functioning menus. My goal is to ...
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is it possible to have an always visible menu bar for nautilus or restore the default full gear button menu, in 14.04

The general solution which involves uninstalling various appmenu packages does not work for nautilus, its menu bar is still missing. It does get a gear drop down menu button on the tool bar, but that ...
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