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Questions about interface menus, placement and addition of them. Menus are a common user interface feature that allow users to interact with applications.

Menus are one of the primary ways to interact with applications in a GUI interface. Menus are typically accessed through one of two ways.

  • Clicking on a particular menu at the top of the screen (e.g. the File menu or Edit menu)

  • Right clicking to bring up a context menu

Menus contain common actions for applications. Often these actions are accessible via keyboard shortcut.

As of Ubuntu version 11.04, application menus are typically found in a global menu at the top of all screens. Before this version, application menus were contained in the application window itself.

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How to add menu items in System menu

I want to insert an item to System menu: Help and Support About Gnome About Ubuntu More specifically, I want to insert a new item under "About Ubuntu". Trying with alacarte doesn't work. Cloning "ubuntu-about.desktop" file and changing his…
Leonardo Montenegro
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How to disable global menu and have always visible menu bars

Is it possible to get menus to be shown in always visible menu bars in 14.04, rather than in window title bars?
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How to adjust top menu bar size?

I accidentally clicked something that enlarged the top menu bar. I have no idea how I did this but just want to change it back. Picture included below:
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How do I toggle an application's menu?

is it possible to toggle (show/hide) the appmenu ? I've disabled the globalmenu, because i don't like the behavior.
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K menu unresponsive

Sometimes my system gets into a state where the K menu is unresponsive - clicking on the big K doesn't do anything. I'm running Kubuntu 18.04. How can I kick-start it? (I'm using the Application Menu interface, in case that maters.) The system…
Paul A.
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How do you reset/revert system menus back to defaults?

There are menu items missing form my System->Preference menu. Going to System->Preferences->Main Menu, the menu items are not disable, but missing entirely. How do you reset the menus back to defaults?
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How to make application toolbar show an icon only?

By default Ubuntu displays toolbar icons alongside its text. I want to make every applications toolbar to show icon only. I tried changing this value /desktop/gnome/interface/toolbar_style to icons using gconf-editor like mentioned here and restart…
toobuntu
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Hidden text in application menu

I'm sure I'm not the first to ask this, but I searched and found no answer. When I search in the application menu for example "python" I have version 2.7 and version 3.8, and the rest of the line is not displayed on the screen, so it is impossible…
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How can I add Delete option to the drop down menu?

When I right click on a file or folder in Ubuntu 13.10 I only have the option to send it to the Trash. I would like to be able to delete it instead. How can I add Delete to my choices? I have searched and found quite a few replies but only found…
Ronshere
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GNOME Main Menu; remove arrow

Is there any way to easily remove the dropdown arrow when using the GNOME menu in Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.04? I don't want to need to recompile the panel or anything messy unless I need to. Just to clarify, it's one of the two GNOME menus available by…
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Menus don't show after an upgrade

I'm having this problem after an automatic upgrade, where the only thing that is correctly loaded is the background image. Another user experienced the exact same problem, though the cause is different (this was his post: Desktop does not show when…
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how to get rid of "open in terminal" choise in Thunar

Possible Duplicate: How to customize files context menu in Xubuntu XFCE Thunar file manager? I want to open a folder in a launcher menu (Home), say "downloads". I select it and then a submenu emerges with two choises: uppermost "downloads",and…
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Global Menu in Ubuntu 12.04 is not working untill after using a program once?

I am useing Ubuntu 12.04 and the Global menu is not working untill after I have used any program or the dashboard at least once. I was wondering if any one knew anything about this and if there was a way to fix it. However the Menu seems to work…
Michael Prokopec
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How to remove context menu options not shown on application selection

Whenever I right click a HTML, CSS, JS or PHP file I get the following: As you can see I have several options that do not show in the "Recommended Applications" window. I wish to eliminate all options that do not appear in the Recommended…
Luis Alvarado
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Running application not showed in list as red points

I have a problem on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. It happend sometimes with different applications. I see a red point for each running window of an application in list of vertical menu. But, sometimes there is a running application that not showing as a red…
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