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 do I remove "Ubuntu" in the bios boot menu? (UEFI)
See this ubuntu appears in BIOS menu (UEFI)
I have this on my Lenovo s205 too.
Is there some way to remove "ubuntu" from the menu? I don't even have it installed anymore.
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How to get to the GRUB menu at boot-time?
My system is not dual-boot, I run a standard Ubuntu desktop system "on the metal" (I think running it in a VM is the same).
Pressing c while booting does not cause the GRUB menu to appear (which I ...
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How to remove session entries from LightDM?
I recently added Cairo Dock to my GNOME Shell in 11.10. Cairo Dock is GREAT, but I'm left with one little problem that I'd like to fix: after installing Cairo Dock, LightDM includes two extraneous ...
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Menu missing in Lotus notes 8 and Eclipse in Unity
I installed lotus notes 8.5.2 on 10.10 netbook using unity desktop. At first lotus notes showed its menu. Suddenly (not sure if I did something) the menu disappeared. When I start up using gnome ...
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How can I add and change items in my Applications Menu?
Occasionally I would like to either remove/disable menu entries or add launchers for programs to my Applications list- how can I do this?
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Application's menu missing from menu bar
I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 and found that menus for many applications do not show on the menu bar, as it is configured in 'Settings > Appearance'. For example: menus for Filezilla, Geary, ...
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How to edit the Applications Menu in GNOME 3?
I am using Ubuntu 16.04, with Gnome 3.18. Using extensions I have gotten rid of the dash panel and only use the Applications Menu in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. (I don't have Unity.) ...
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How to customize files context menu in Xubuntu XFCE Thunar file manager?
I generally prefer XFCE desktop environment of Xubuntu, but I found its files right-click context menu too humble (no option to compress/decompress files for example, and I'd like some my very special ...
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How can I get my GRUB menu to be hidden, AND have the shift or esc keys show the hidden GRUB menu at boot time
I'm running Ubuntu 16.10, and I'm trying to hide my GRUB menu at power on/boot time, and wish the menu to appear only when I hit the Shift or Esc keys.
I change the appropriate options in /etc/...
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How do I edit applications panel menu in Lubuntu?
Main menu (alacarte) cannot record changes as it should. Some time it does, but randomly and rarely.
Is this a bug?
This question is not a clone of this one. In that case the Main menu would not ...
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Is there a "Places" menu for Ubuntu Unity?
I'd like to know if it's possible to put a "Places" tab in the upper menu of Ubuntu, such as CentOS, Debian, etc.
Thanks
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What are the F6 options during installation?
What is the meaning of different options in the F6 context menu of Ubuntu installation dvd ?
i.e.
acpi=off
noapic
nolapic
edd=on
nodmraid
nomodeset
Free Software only
How do they affect the ...
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How can I remove orphaned start menu entries?
For some reason I have a bunch of left-over start menu entries from applications (e.g, Gnome Do, Synapse, Leafpad.) and was wondering if there's a way to remove all orphaned entries for applications ...
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How to open directory in Guake from Nautilus
In Nautilus, I have upon right-clicking a directory, the option to open a Terminal with the prompt in the selected directory. I think this is very handy and I use it a lot.
Now I would like to use ...
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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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Reinstate System Menu after reverting to Gnome Classic?
How do I get the system menu back on the top panel after reverting to Gnome Classic on 11.10 like suggested in this answer to How to revert to Gnome Classic
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How can I get the menu bar in firefox?
I installed a fresh ubuntu desktop 11.10 and in firefox there is no menu bar. I tried several things like
pressing the Alt key
F1-12
right click on a free space in the tab bar
but still no menu ...
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What are the choices for the Ubuntu desktop GUI and how do I enable them?
I am new to Ubuntu and have installed the 12.10 in VM on my laptop. I've installed the Vmware tools as well. However, the VM boots to the command-line. A few questions:
What are the choices of ...
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How do I always show (or autohide) menu items in Unity?
Is there any way to have the menu items on window menus always visible? I hate the whole hide and seek thing and have searched Google and here but I'm unable to find anything on how to make them stay ...
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Adding extra options to right-click menu
Are there any more options that can be added to the right click menu in Ubuntu? e.g when right clicking in nautilus or desktop?
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How do I replace the MeMenu username with my actual name?
Whilst I like the MeMenu, one thing has always bothered me about it; rather then use my actual name, it uses my username.
So, is there anyway to change this?
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GUI for editing Menu in Xubuntu
I see that Xubuntu has package Gnome-menus, but I cannot find the command to run the editor it should contain. I found a small editor but it does not allow new entries and alacarte tries to install ...
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How do I get my USB keyboard to not freeze up in the recovery menu? [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 11.10, and whenever I enter the recovery menu, my keyboard freezes and I can't make any selections. I have tried using GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="usb usb_keyboard" but this doesn't help ...
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How do I hide CIFS volumes in the Places menu?
I originally started an Ubuntu forums post about this but I never received any responses. Anyways, I've got my Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos folders pointing to Samba shares on my server via ...
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How do I get "restart" option in the shutdown menu in Unity?
The dropdown menu I get when I click on the gear link in the top right corner only shows these options:
Lock Computer
Logout
Suspend
Hibernate
Shutdown
There is no "restart" or "reboot".
How can I ...
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Problems with "Shutdown" and "LogOut" after upgrading to 14.04
I have upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 on my laptop. The upgrade was successful, but the issue is that nothing happens now when I click on "LogOut", "Shutdown", "Suspend" from the top right power icon (...
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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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Is there a way to add a main menu button to the unity panel?
I like many of the features of unity (ubuntu 11.04). I use a netbook and so enjoy having less wasted space. The side menu is fine too. However where is the main menu? Using the dash to get there is ...
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Why can't I see the menubar in some applications?
I don't run gnome-panel normally. Most menubars work correctly. However, with wxMaxima and Audacity, they are not showing. When I start gnome-panel and add an appmenu, I can see the menus again.
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Where are the .desktop icon files stored?
What system folder on Ubuntu 12.10 are the main menu .desktop icons stored at???
I am having trouble locating....
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Add a menu item to KDE Launcher
I've installed Eclipse Framework not as a binary package (tar.gz), user has only to extract it to a desired directory and start off. I've added eclipse destination path to the global PATH variable and ...
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How to add "Refresh" option to right click menu in Lubuntu?
I have many users at the place I work, expressing the notion of switching to Ubuntu. Most of them, for whatever weird reason wanting to know if its possible to have refresh added when you right click ...
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"Always on top" option missing for Firefox/Chrome in 18.04
I have just updated to 18.04, and cannot right-click and get the little menu to select "Always on top" for Firefox/Chrome, but I can do so for the terminal, pdfs, etc. (along with other ...
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right click menu on mouse release (windows behavior)
I'm trying to change the behavior of the right click menu in ubuntu 10.10 because I use Windows 7 and Ubuntu.
When you right click you need to hold the right click and select something.
In Windows ...
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How to refresh launcher icon application menu in ubuntu 12.04?
After modifying a desktop file in /usr/share/applications, I need to refresh the launcher icon application menu so that my modification shows up.
For the sake of clarity, the menu that should get ...
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Sound icon missing from top menu
The sound icon from the top menu bar is missing. It does however appear on the login screen and the guest account. I can still adjust my volume using keyboard keys but I liked the sound icon because ...
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How do I remove the shutdown confirmation menu?
How do I remove the shutdown confirmation menu saying "are you sure you want to shut down"? This is the menu that pops up after I press shut down.
I can't navigate to it in gconf_editor using the ...
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custom icon in "Places" menu
I'm pretty new to Ubuntu, but I know the basics.
I read the "How do I change the folder icons in the “Places” menu?" but it didn't help, did the option #2 since I want to specify it for a single ...
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How can launchers be added to and removed from the Unity dash?
Scenario #1: Manually removing launchers
I installed a few games from the recent Humble Indie Bundle and removed them today.
The games which were installed using a deb were successfully uninstalled ...
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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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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 ...
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Wine menu directory location?
Using the menu editor I accidentally deleted the WINE menu. Now I am stuck with the application installed and no way to easily use parts of it. I tried reinstalling it, many times, and still the menu ...
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Awesome WM menu missing Firefox
After sudo apt-get install awesome awesome-extra and logging into it (with no previous configuration that I know of), there's no menu entry for Firefox. All my other stuff is there - Mutt, Meld, jEdit,...
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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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How do I get a Mac-like Gnome panel/menu bar (which changes accordingly to the active window).
So in Firefox, I would have the top panel change to
File Edit View ... etc
and in Photoshop it would be File Edit Image Select ... etc.
On top of that, this function would make those menu bars in ...
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How to get Openbox as kde's window manager
I successfully installed Openbox on my laptop running Kubuntu 12.04
but when I login using the kde/openbox session, the desktop icons of kde, show me an
"open with ?" pop up, while the kmenu is almost ...
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No Wine menu showing up in main menu
I have uninstalled Wine and then reinstalled a few weeks later, now there is no Wine menu in the main menu. I can't get to anything Wine related.
How do I reset the menu so Wine shows up?
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How to change the color of menu text?
I managed to change the selection color from orange to light gray which is very nice.
Now I'd like to change the text color of inactive/disabled menu items which are in black as you can see "...
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How to get the menu to display in the panel rather than in individual windows in Xfce?
Lately, I've been using Xfce more and Unity less. One of the things I miss from Unity is the position of the "menus". (In this case, they say "Media, Edit", etc., what are these called, by the way? ...
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