Disable the global menu bar integration extension you cant uninstall it. A gnome shell extension to provide a global application menu. Now, extract the downloaded the archive, and in this directory, on the command line, run. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Using the same program in gnome3, with its already huge padding is terrible. The unity global menu and pixel saving features where even better than on macos and. Is it possible to have global application main menu in ubuntu 18. My ubuntu setup global menu bar screenshots ubuntu. The buttons you added should still be visible, but the menus to their left should now be in the global menu bar instead. Solved missing ubuntu menu bar missing when canonical releases ubuntu 14. With the valapanelappmenuxfcegit github project, youre able to get a fully working global menu with the xfce4panel. Plasma desktop with global menu, app title and panel buttons.
I have a notebook with vertical space constraints, and older applications, such as eclipse really benefit from the global menu. Global menu gnome extension gnome global appmenu is a gnome shell extension that integrates a global application menu into the gnome shell topbar. How to enable global menu in xfce desktop ubuntuhandbook. The extension also provides support for hud menus so you can search in an applications menus. To disable the global menu remove the indicatorappmenu package, then log out and back in unity will continue to run without it and your menus will appear inside the application windows as normal. That should reset all your settings to the default. How to install a global menu for gnome shell with gnome global. Gnome global application menuhud for gnome gnome shell. Applications in main that use qt4 can be listed by aptcache rdepends libqt3mt. Context menus for menus such as for bookmarks in firefoxs bookmarks menu should be ignored. Global menu support for java applications in ubuntu java helps. This is a feature request to get global menu back in ubuntu gnome in a future release. How to enable global menu on linux mintcinnamon omg.
Just follow their instructions on how to install itset itul up. Show menus in applications window instead of global menu. The extension developer announced it discontinued the project a while back, but he changed his mind back in january 2018, when he successfully added support for wayland. My ubuntu setup global menu bar multimedia showcase. Canonical also thinks that this would leave more space for main content. In a nutshell, global menu is a ubuntus feature that places the menu bar for each applications on the bar at the top of the screen. So this is my setup i use the gnome main menu applet, numix icon theme, indicators applet, topmenu applet, ambiantmate theme, spidey window decoration and gtkthemechanger.
The notion of the global menu is curious it saves vertical space by. Enable global menu in elementary os luna ubuntuhandbook. The standard since unitys inception has been the global menus, similar to apples mac os x. That menu bar holding your applications menu items is called global menu. This video shows how amazing kde plasma global menu widget became in the. To save screen space, ubuntu unity uses mac os x style global menu that. And being able to do this with super wingpanel, for applications. Although currently in beta the extension works well on gnome 3. The purpose behind moving program menu items into global menu was to let ubuntu users focus more into main content. As far as header bar applications are concerned, gnome global appmenu. Yes, the desktop version of unity will use the global menu by default. In this short tutorial, i demonstrate how to add a global menu to ubuntu mate, linux mint, and other ubuntu based distributions that use mate.
This trick will get your menu bar that is, the bar with the file, edit, view, and other dropdown menusback into each individual window, rather than on the top menu bar. This may be trying to squash a fly by swinging an elephant around the room, but you may try deleting all your mate settings, and then logging out and logging in again. In arch and probably other distros you need to install some. There are a lot of conflicting information on this subject on the internet, with mostly suggestions to install some gnome extensions that are no longer available or not maintained. The appmenu also known as the global menu in ubuntu oneiric can be both a. A global menu extension for gnome shell is in development. Install a global menu on ubuntu mate and linux mint 17 youtube. A thirdparty cinnamon extension called global appmenu, currently in beta, provides a similar panelbased application menu system to that found in unity the github project page has full install details and caveats but well cover it in just a. As far as header bar applications are concerned, gnome global appmenu wont work. All things linux and gnulinux this is neither a community exclusively about the kernel linux, nor is exclusively about the gnu press j to jump to the feed. How do i enable or disable the global application menu. If youre using to the global app menu used in the ubuntu unity desktop, and want to use something similar in cinnamon, you can.