Questions about the global application menu project. This is NOT the global menu shipped in Unity.
Questions tagged [globalmenu]
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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, how can I make it look like macOS?
BTW, when I…
Ives
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How to hide window title and menu bar in GNOME Shell?
Is it easily possible in GNOME 3's gnome-shell to achieve similar appearance of windows' title and menu bars as with Unity's Globalmenu?
type
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Why don't applications opened as root use global menu?
Why do applications like synaptic (and other that need root privilege) have their menus in the window instead of top panel? Is it going to change or will it stay like that to indicate that user is on root privileges?
3rp3
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Is there a global menu for the XFCE panel?
It would be very useful, and am thinking of switching to XFCE for the speed.
John
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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 to define an alias for running commands from the…
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How do I completely remove the Global menu on Ubuntu 13.10?
I want to know how can I remove the Global menu bar completely. The old tweaks for 12.04 isn't work completely for all apps like the Terminal and Nautilus.
chazdg
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How can unity-panel-service be disabled?
From the unity-panel-service manpages:
DESCRIPTION
The unity-panel-service program is normally started automatically by the Unity
shell (which gets started as a compiz module) and is used to draw panels which can
then be used for…
Amos Annoy
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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 and 20.04. Global menu does work on 18.04, but…
xiota
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How to enable global menu for PhpStorm in 13.10
I've installed PhpStorm in /opt/phpstorm and after first run there is file ~./local/share/applications/jetbrains-phpstorm.desktop
[Desktop…
sasa
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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 I make these three applications to use the global…
Adnan Quaium
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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 default Firefox installation but that's clearly not it…
TenLeftFingers
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Is there an xfce globalmenu plugin for 13.10?
I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 on my netbook, and I've recently switched to xfce as unity was a bit to hefty on the processor.
One of the features I liked about unity was the global menu in the top panel (saved space on the tiny screen) so I've been…
rymate1234
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Is there a way to install globalmenu on lxde or openbox?
Is there a way to install gnome-globalmenu on openbox ?
I love minimal linux distro and apps, I don't want to use gnome or kde ...
zillion
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Can I show the global menu on all displays?
Let's say I have a two monitor setup.
I open Firefox on display #1. If I hover my mouse to select a menu item on display #1, the global menu will show. But if I hover the mouse to select a menu item on display #2 nothing will show, unless I move the…
Dan
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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 in.
Now there is no menu bar. As I run Guake I…
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