Remove arrows on system tray menus in gnome

Question

I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 with Gnome and have found the behaviour of the context menus on icons in the system tray behaves differently.

For applets which normally have a large number of menu options (e.g. notes in Tomboy or files in Dropbox) rather than display all the menu icons now only 5 or 6 are displayed and up/down arrows are displayed to scroll to the rest.

Is it possible to revert this behaviour so all menu options are showing without the need to scroll?

Which version of Gnome are you using? You can use gnome-shell --version — Wilf, Feb 03 '14 at 22:01
@wilf I've run that command but it says gnome-shell is not installed. I've taken a quick look at the system tray about information and it lists Indicator Applet Complete 12.10.1 — Loftx, Feb 04 '14 at 21:01
Then what are you using? Ubuntu 13.10 by default use 3.8, you can use 3.10. Is it Unity, Gnome Panel or something? — Wilf, Feb 04 '14 at 21:27
@wilf - I'm fairly sure I'm using Gnome Panel, but if there's some way I can confirm this let me know. — Loftx, Feb 05 '14 at 06:14
Here is a answer on how to find out which windows manager you are using How to determine which window manager is running — The Jeff, Mar 01 '14 at 02:43

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 03 '15 at 12:21

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This extension/work around could be of some help if you have to get rid of the drop down menus which are default in gnome 3.8+ gnome-shell-remove-dropdown-arrows

edited Jan 03 '15 at 12:21

Greenonline

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answered Jun 27 '14 at 09:10

Hasan Ali Khattak

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 29 '16 at 03:32

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There's this awesome extension called TopiconsPlus. Once installed it moves all those "legacy" icons to the menubar.

edited Nov 29 '16 at 03:32

wjandrea

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answered Nov 29 '16 at 01:42

Nitai

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Remove arrows on system tray menus in gnome

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