Mac-style Menu Bar for GTK and Java/Swing applications!

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Originally Posted by zniavre

hello

i wonder if this new settings is available on ppa's repos?

it seems not right now ... is'nt it ?

sorry to insist a bit on this point > could be possible to add rgba support it will make rounded menus and a bit of transparency

http://www.cimitan.com/murrine/rgba-support/list

i really think it will be really nice and give a "modern" look.

please tell me if i ask too many times for something you do not want.

thank you very much

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You should submit your feature request as an issue on the googlecode page of the project.

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Originally Posted by ayoli

edit or create the file ~/.gnomerc (~/ is a shortcut to your /home/username directory whatever is your username).
put at least this line in it :

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export GTK_MODULES=globalmenu-gnome

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If you have installed vala and gnome globalmenu packages from the PPA and added the globalmenu applet to your panel (top panel is better), then after a reboot it should work.

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After I calmed down a bit I was able to figure it out with your instructions, thanks! I don't know why I always tend to panic like this when it comes to something new--I'm not a newbie by any means...more like an intermediate user when it comes to Linux so I shouldn't have freaked out.

Having installed it I'm not so sure I can use it yet... for one I'm not sure how to set up the menus like I want yet and so on. I noticed DJ Pen is one of the one behind the Mac4Lin project and I'll be looking into that to see if I can get any ideas on menu placement from there. LOL I always thought the Mac4Lin was MacOnLin for some strange reason and never looked into it much but I saw a reference to it in one of your blog posts and that cleared it right up.

Thanks again for your help!

--bornagainpenguin

I'm mostly the guy updating the Mac4Lin docs for the 1.0 release but I do help out with a few other areas of Mac4Lin when I can. Although when it comes to the GlobalMenu I'm still a noob. :D

I just installed the new version of gnome2-globalmenu, 0.6.1678, and this thing ROCKS!
Many thanks to the devs for making this available to us :D

RGBA support added to the development branch.
Icons and check boxes are now (almost) properly aligned.

Cool!

Someones doing good work here. But I wud prefer the orig look and feel of ubuntu, tht's was the reason I formatted windows.

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Originally Posted by vishal_mala

Someones doing good work here. But I wud prefer the orig look and feel of ubuntu, tht's was the reason I formatted windows.

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The look and feel of the global menu bar depends on the theme you have selected for your system. So, if you're using ubuntu theme, the global menu will look like that.
The attachments posted here are for demonstration purpose only and they depnds on the theme in use by who posted them.

can 't wait for ppa's with rgba support ...

i never had luck with compiling.

thank you very much

Is there a reason why the user switcher applet doesn't work when i load the menu applet? When my box restarts it pops up with the error to either reload or not the user switcher applet, but i have to close it because it is never able to load?

I must say, this project is awesome, i remember when aqd first started it, it was nice, but not this nice, now is just great. Great work guys thanks for keeping the project alive.