Xubuntu-esque desktop menu in Ubuntu?

[esmurdo]

Does anyone know of any way to mimic/copy the system menu from xubuntu's desktop into Ubuntu? I really like the ability and ease to right click and access my menu from the desktop and would like to copy this over to Ubuntu. Thank you for any help!

[Izek]

You can right-click in Xubuntu on the desktop and access applications/etc? That's new to me.

A screenshot would be nice.

[myo]

hi esmurdo

that menu is called a 'root menu' (root as in root window, not root account), and as far as I know its only a feature of window managers like enlightenment, fluxbox, and xfce.

its possible to use openbox or fluxbox as the window manager for gnome, but I've never done that myself, so I can't supply the details.

gnome itself does not have that feature, unfortunately.