HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

[OliverN]

I'm not sure I follow. Was this after you went through the decompiling process? Could you break down exactly what you did? I'm still trying to learn how to do things like this in Ubuntu.

Alright, to do what I did here's what you do.

assuming you've still got the files in your /var/cache/apt-build/build/ -folder try doing

tar -xzvf /var/cache/apt-build/build/gnome-panel_2.30.2.orig.tar.gz -C ~/

to extract the contents of the file I mentioned to your home dir. -If this fails for some reason you could just navigate there via. the file browser (nautilus) and copy the gnome-panel_2.30.2.orig.tar.gz -file to your home dir, then extract it. Then do

cd ~/gnome-panel-2.30.2/
sudo gedit gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c

and do the needed changes to the file (what andrek posted)

then run the final commands

sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo killall gnome-panel

after that you can remove the gnome-panel-2.30.2 folder from your home dir.

Hope it works for you too...

[onethirtythreeseven]

Perfect! Thanks.

[Hellene Atheist]

thanks oliver, it worked for my maverick, too

[QXY7]

The problem with the simpler method above is that yes, it gets rid of that pesky black arrow, but it also changes/deletes the icon that separates the notification area from the rest of the panel (also the one to the left of the window list).

Took me a while to figure out (this will make the handles blank as well):

style "panel-arrow-remove"
#the following removes the arrows from the panel
{
engine "pixmap"
    {
    image
    {
        function    = ARROW
        recolorable    = TRUE
        overlay_file    = "arrows/arrow-blank.png"
        overlay_border    = {2,2,2,2}
        overlay_stretch    = FALSE
        arrow_direction    = UP
    }
    image
    {
        function    = ARROW
        recolorable    = TRUE
        overlay_file    = "arrows/arrow-blank.png"
        overlay_border    = {2,2,2,2}
        overlay_stretch    = FALSE
        arrow_direction    = DOWN
    }
    image
    {
      function			= HANDLE
      recolorable		= TRUE
      overlay_file		= "arrows/arrow-blank.png"
      overlay_stretch	= FALSE
      orientation		= VERTICAL
    }
    image
    {
      function			= HANDLE
      overlay_file		= "arrows/arrow-blank.png"
      overlay_stretch 	= FALSE
      orientation		= HORIZONTAL
    }
    }
}

widget_class "*PanelToplevel*" 			style "panel-arrow-remove"