By Detector | 07 April 2009

Gnome Global menu is a gnome panel applet like Mac OS panel, displaying your text window menu ( File, Edit, View…) on top gnome panel, so it saves space, it looks very cool and your desktop is organized. This menu existed earlier like a patch/crack for GTK+ but now the things are really changed. The GTK patch become a simple panel applet with easy installation process.

The panel applet, once installed, can be added to any GNOME panel as any other applet.

The easiest way to install Gnome Global menu on Ubuntu is with Ubuntu Tweak.

First install Ubuntu Tweak latest version – you can install it with one click by clicking here and choose your Ubuntu version.. After installation you can find Ubuntu tweak on Applications/System Tools/Ubuntu Tweak. From Ubuntu Tweak right menu choose Applications then Add/Remove Next, find Gnome-Globalmenu and select for installation and then Apply After installation you can find Gnome Global menu with right click on the gnome panel and choose Add to Panel Next find and add Global Menu Panel Applet and that’s it. Also you can organize your panel with replacing Menu Bar with Main Menu applet and move Global Menu Panel Applet next to Main menu

There is a various ways to install Global menu applet for advanced Linux users, so, for more info check official page.

Tags | Howto, Linux, Open Source, Ubuntu