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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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GRUB menu not showing - countdown is taken into account

being my first post, I would like to thank you for the time you will spend helping me. I recently installed Ubuntu Studio 20.04 on the same SSD as Windows 8, on a Lenovo Z50-75 Laptop. On LENOVO, you ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Dark mode isn't making the GNOME menus dark

Ubuntu 20.04 dark mode is not making the top bar menus dark. I've done all my updates and rebooted a few times but it won't make them menus dark.
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ubuntu 20.04 applications menu has no icons, but can launch softwares from the side bar tray that still has icons [duplicate]

I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 yesterday, The update ran successfully and rebooted the system. As soon as I logged in to the desktop, I clicked on the applications menu and there were no ...
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Panel application menu icon location in BUDGIE

Does anyone know the location of the panel menu icon in budgie? I know you can change it using Budgie desktop settings but I just want to change it back to the original.
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Ubuntu 18.04 dual display - menus not working on primary display

I have recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 on a lenovo laptop with a 1920 x 1080 display. I have extended the desktop to my AOC 28" monitor (3840 x 2160). Any context menus on the primary display appear ...
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How to add shortcuts under specific categories in your Lubuntu applications menu

Yesterday I installed some games, by using both the package manager and the software center. Some games are now properly installed, but their launch shortcut icons do not appear in the 'Games' section ...
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How to (easily) change Lubuntu applications menu icon

How to (easily) change Lubuntu applications menu icon? I checked this question here on askubuntu.com, but I could not find any answer. I am still trying to find a simple way to do that.
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Is there a way to edit the Nautilus "Other Application" menu

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. When using Nautilus and right-click on a file I get a drop-down menu, the first two items are “Open With Default application” and “Open With Other Application”. I use ...
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How to unlist apps

recently i uninstalled some wine programs and they are still listed in the list of applications. Needless to say that because they are uninstalled they give error when I try to open them
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Application interface font style italic

In some applications, like Android Studio, the whole interface font (the one of the menus and so on) is entirely in italic. In IntelliJ on the hand, this is not the case. I did not change any ...
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Changed behavior in wine application menus

Usually wine start menu entries are created under Wine\Programs in the main menu. And those files are sourced from ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs. I recently deleted some menu entries but ...
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Unreadable text on some menus

Been using Ubuntu for a while first time asking a question, and excuse me as I am not very technical. I am getting some unusual scrambling of fonts in menu's on most applications making them ...
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Fuzzy and blurred display of drop-down menus in Ubuntu 18.04

I have recently migrated from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04 in my PC with AMD Radeon video. Drop-down menus appear to be fuzzy and blurred. Please refer to the screen-shot attached. I did a lot of ...
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Add Menu Folders Ubuntu Studio 19.10

I am trying to add a new subfolder to Ubuntu Studio 19.10 as I am a lighting designer as well and have some lighting specific apps that I will be installing on to my system. I have no issue adding ...
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F12 failed to bring up boot menu

A while back, I tried without success to install dual boot OS ( windows 10 and Ubuntu) on a single hard drive. To my surprise, I am not even able to bring up boot menu by pressing F12 ( or Fn+F12). ...
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How to add Recently opened files item to xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin right pane?

In xfce4-whiskermenu the right pane has an item Recently Used, it is for apps/programs. I'd like to know if is possible to add an item to show Recently Opened Files to the right pane of xfce4-...
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Afterimage when scrolled in activity menu

Specs (provided via a comment): VM Spec is 4 core 10gb ram. Host machine is i7-6700 4C8T 16 gb ram installed There is a afterimage when scroll in application menu on Ubuntu 19.10 like following ...
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How to disable effects on "win key" menu?

To answer my question - please, try this yourslef first, it's easy. Please, press your [Win] key on Ubuntu (I have 18.04 LTS), and see what happens. (FX would happens, and 7/10 times mine PC would ...
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Ubuntu 19.10 - show application's menu choices: e.g. file, edit, etc

I seem to have forgotten how to do this, and I don't think I'm phrasing it right for a google search, nor do I see a keyboard shortcut for this. I'd like to be able to show an application's menu (such ...
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No menu bar in Digikam on Ubuntu 19.10

Title says it all, basically. In Digikam, I cannot (I think) access the settings without using the menu bar. All screenshots I see of this program have a menu bar. But on my system, I cannot get it ...
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Applications missing in Ubuntu 19.10

My applications are not showing in the menu when I press the super (windows) key. It says "Sorry, there is nothing that matches your search.", and I haven't searched for anything. Here is the image ...
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Icons in the top right menu - what's the meaning?

Hi, can anyone tell me what is the UX supposed to be for ubuntu Menu? How am I supposed to know what the buttons do? There is no "hover over it" to know. In my case I am trying to find out what does ...
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Dropdown system menu on top right is bigger and messed up

A couple of days ago the dropdown menu of Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS suddenly became unusable, with big icons misplaced and a few missing ones. If I try to click on any of those, it's like the click happens ...
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K menu unresponsive

Sometimes my system gets into a state where the K menu is unresponsive - clicking on the big K doesn't do anything. I'm running Kubuntu 18.04. How can I kick-start it? (I'm using the Application ...
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Ubuntu 19 all apps not showing up

All apps aren't showing up as Ubuntu 18 on Ubuntu 19 (when clicked left-bottom menu button on Ubuntu dock). But if searched searched apps are showing. Is there any fix for that?
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How do I get to an "open with" menu?

If I right click, or double right click, I don't get an open with menu. Also, if this helps you answer, when I play minecraft, it identifies a right click as a left click.
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How can I remove an empty main menu category in Ubuntu Budgie 19.04?

I've added with the Menu Editor an app to the menu under Applications, but then the system created an empty bottom category entry of "Other" (as seen in the picture - https://pasteboard.co/IsFHcd9.png)...
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How to restore default menu in Ubuntu 18.04?

I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and hence this trivial query. Situation 1: Point 1: When I login as admin user the menu bar appears as shown below. Point 2: The active search bar is visible Point 3: I ...
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Top-Panel Icons Become Empty

The system is Ubuntu MATE version 18.04.2 using the "Familiar" panel layout. I have installed a number of launchers in the Top Panel bar, but am having a problem with a couple of them. Both of those ...
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Installed Okular using snap, toolbar file open entry don't work

Just installed Okular using the snap package in my ubuntu 16.04 machine. It works fine if right click a pdf and choose open with->okular. If I open Okular I cannot use the file menu in the toolbar. If ...
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Change Gnome menu order in Ubuntu 19.04

When I right click on the desktop background image I get a pop-up menu. 99 percent of the time I want to open a new terminal, the bottom option in Ubuntu 18 and also my Red Hat system. After ...
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Renaming alacarte-made*.desktop files

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 with the default Gnome 3 desktop shell and the Frippery applications menu shell extension. I attempted to reorganize the menu using menulibre and complete chaos ensued: ...
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Which *.desktop files belong where?

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04, using Gnome3 with the Frippery extensions (which, among other things, give me a bunch of "favourites" launchers in the top bar and a Gnome2-style applications menu) and I've ...
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How can I allow menu scrolling in Ubuntu 18.04/19 like it is for Ubuntu 16.04?

I am porting program from Linux Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04 and 19. I am using appindicator-1.0 in conjunction with Gtk+2.0 menu. Menu consist of constant items and many dynamically added items. If ...
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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/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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Kde menu items disapeared afte zsh set to default shell

I installed oh-my-zsh and set zsh as my default shell. chsh -s /bin/zsh After that many menu items in KDE menu disappeared. For example Telegram, starting with: env AMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/...
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How to resize menu window in Xubuntu 18.04?

I have accidentally pressed some Alt+f.. key and now my menu window (the one that opens when I click on the top left corner) is full size. Tried various settings and I'm more confused. Originally I ...
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How to fix grayed out options on right click menu Ubuntu 18.04

I am on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and updated to the latest software. I have replaced hard drive of my laptop with an SSD. Original hard drive is fixed where the DVD drive used to be. Windows and Ubuntu both ...
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Disable 4th title-bar button (menu) on Ubuntu 18.04

I have just now installed Ubuntu and i am seeing 4 title bar buttons on some windows (menu, min, max, close) I would really like to get rid of the menu button. Possible? I'm using standard Ubuntu 18....
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Fresh install of Ubuntu Mate 18.10 on 2008 Macbook; no menus

I installed Ubuntu Mate 18.10 on a 2008 Macbook (2.4 GHz). It's dual-booting with MacOS 10.6.8, using rEFInd. On the very first boot of a standard installation, the top menu was empty. I have been ...
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Cinnamon menu empty - Ubuntu 18.04

i have an... kinda odd problem with my cinnamon desktop. After i added a new entry on the menu (using: right-click on the main menu-> configure -> goto menu tab -> open the menu editor) i looked at ...
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How can I resize the size of right-click tooltip menu on Ubuntu dock?

I just don't like that size of the menu when I right-click on Ubuntu docked icons, please help me if you can. See attached screenshot for clarity.
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How to reset your show applications menu

I installed menu-xdg on ubuntu 18.10 and now I have all the applications showing in my applications menu. Installing it was a mistake but now I cannot reset it to the way it was. Have tried a few ...
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Adjust alignment of pop-up menus in gnome shell

I use arc-dark theme in combo with dash-to-panel extension, and I don't like how the pop-up menus align with the buttons. They are way off on the right, as you can see in this example: Is it there ...
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MenuLibre Removing Items from Whisker Menu

I've seen some stuff on here for this, but no solid answers. I'm running Ubuntu Studio 18.10. I wanted to change the category icon in the Whisker Menu for Wine. I checked the Whisker Menu properties, ...
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How can I use terminal commands to access Ubuntu menu items?

I need to run a bash script that will retrieve all of the desktop files located in a specific menu item (like accessories/utilities or education, etc) and then run a specific one of them. What ...
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Broken xfce4 applications menu entry - I know where the executable is but I don't know how to fix it

I downloaded to a new computer the pcloud application (a cloud backup service). I've used it for a while and it works great. However, when I launched it I ran it straight from my "Downloads" directory ...
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How to configure Grub4dos menu to boot 16.04.5 i386 iso on non- PAE CPU (forcepae)

After you properly configure Grub4dos entry to boot from an iso image (i.e. in such a way that it allows to boot on modern machines with PAE) for i386 iso of ubuntu 12.04.5 or more recent, you might ...
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How do I make an application manually extracted from a .tar be available on "Show Applications"?

I want my application that is portable extract from a .tar, like PopcornTime to be available in the "Show applications" in Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (18.04). I extract my application in some folder and to ...
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