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Linux Mint 6 tutorials, this tutorial will show you how to install global menu and system wide menu.

Transcript

This is for the person asking me how to install global menu. Global menu is a Mac type of menu where everything is up top. Let me show you examples of what I’m talking about. So you have a folder and in your folder, it used to be up top here. The file, edit and stuff, however we’ve removed it and put it up here. So everything that used to be there is now up here. It just depends on which window is – or which program is focused. If you switch to something else like win ff now, the options are winff only. Same thing with anything else, it should be globally like all your programs linked in your machine. However, there are some programs that doesn’t work with this as I’m taking about this right now, is Firefox and open office. So those are the two that I know of right now but in the future it might get fixed. So I don’t know. So how to get it up and running and stuff like that right, so that’s what we’re going to do. First you have to go and add the repositories and you go to their website and just pick which distribution that you’re using, and follow the steps if you are in Ubuntu. Copy, paste all these, add in your source list and ask for the key put that into the key too. Hopefully you guys know how to do that. You can also install it by terminal if you like. If you don’t like that you can always use the synaptic after you added it in and your synaptic search for global menu and there you go. Install that one. Now after you have it installed, since it’s an app, you have to add it to your panel. So you go up somewhere your top panel and click add to panel. And you’re going to look for something called global menu app and you’re going to drag that one out. Click on it and drag it drop it up top. That’s all you really going to have to do and it’s sure to be there after you’re done. Now you have something like this. However you have to edit some changes in here. So you right click on it and preference the first thing you want to enable is the global menu for all applications in the gtk. So that’s what you have to do and this will remove all the menus from all your programs an just put it up on the menu up here and you can do other stuff like this but this is what I have right now, I checked only but you can try the other ones if you like. So that’s how you do that. You also might want to blend your panel with the global menu. So to do that just –anywhere your panel, go to properties and you’re going to the background and change the slider here into your liking and it should blend it, give it a little of transparency. Also, if you want the icon only, all you do is right click on the icon and lets see, preference and in the preference there’s the main button. I’m not sure this is any as of Ubuntu but you can change. I used the same menu here so use the same menu like this but if you delete it, it will look better I guess. And then all you got to do is move it close to the icon, right click on this and – this is pretty weird, I’m going to go and move it again. Now, it looks slick so that’s how you get that up and working to your liking and would want to move all your icons over here. So it’s out of your way over there and so that’s how you do it. I’m not sure if I like it because it looks kind of annoying as of right now, you know you have to click on this shit and then you go up here and click and then you click on something else and you go up here and look at the menu. I don’t know how people do with that. I might try it out see if I like it. See you got to go up and do all that. So that looks annoying to me as of right now, but for the person that wants to this, there you go that’s how you get it up and working. It’s understandable because the app you think is in the menus but it’s actually at the add panel. You know you have to add the panel. So that’s how that’s done.