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    HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

    Ok, I finally found a way to get rid of that ugly white/black arrow near the Ubuntu [ or custom ] icon of menu button in GNOME.
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install apt-build
    while configuring, choose your processor type 
    sudo apt-build source gnome-panel
    sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-panel
    cd /var/cache/apt-build/build/
    sudo gedit gnome-panel-*/gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c
    now change the following part :
    button = g_object_new (PANEL_TYPE_MENU_BUTTON,
    "menu-path", menu_path,
    "custom-icon", custom_icon,
    "tooltip", tooltip,
    "use-menu-path", use_menu_path,
    "use-custom-icon", use_custom_icon,
    "has-arrow", TRUE,
    NULL);
    into
    button = g_object_new (PANEL_TYPE_MENU_BUTTON,
    "menu-path", menu_path,
    "custom-icon", custom_icon,
    "tooltip", tooltip,
    "use-menu-path", use_menu_path,
    "use-custom-icon", use_custom_icon,
    "has-arrow", FALSE,
    NULL);
    save & exit and
    Code:
    cd gnome-panel-*/
    sudo ./configure
    in case there are still some missing dependencies (build-dep may miss something), install them manually [ most of them are the -dev packages, so use synaptic for that - for example when it shows No package 'libgnomeui-2.0' found
     , just search in Synaptic Package Manager for libgnomeui (forget about -2.0 or any other number) and install the -dev package, libgnomeui-dev.]
    sudo make
    sudo make install
    sudo killall gnome-panel
    that's all.
    Last edited by andrek; July 2nd, 2009 at 09:33 PM. Reason: update

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    Re: HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

    Hi, thanks, do you have a screen shot of the result?
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    Re: HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

    Here it is :

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    Re: HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

    awsome tutorial man, works flawlessly
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    Re: HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

    Thanks, I appreciate your reply
    Last edited by andrek; April 3rd, 2008 at 05:46 PM.

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    Re: HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

    Awesome ... Simpliy Wicked .. This Thing Worked Like A Charm .. Thanks Man
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    Re: HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

    Hello folks,
    I've been trying to remove that ugly arrow for some days with no luck.
    The method described in "macmenu" thread didn't work for me(near the page Andrek achieved to use compiz config to activate transparency on gnome-panel but keeping awn without transparency, i think its about page 105). There was an error when I got to the "debuild" step.

    Now I tried this methode, but on ./configure, there are several package dependencies that aren't met by my sistem, and when I try to get them with synaptic, it only let me install lower versions that the ones that are needed.

    I want to know if this method works only for Hardy Heron, cause I have Gusty on an AMD machine,

    Regards!

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    Re: HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

    hello, thank you for this how-to, so good to get off this arrow. But I've noticed that the exit menu has changed, am I the only one? does anyone know how to fix it?

    Regards

    PS : TheOneAlex, I did it on Gutsy on a friend's computer and it worked properly

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    Re: HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

    No, you're not the only one.
    It seems that Ubuntu team adds some patches into the panel, which are missed when we compile it by ourselves. No big deal for me, but if somebody find any info on that - inform us please

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    Re: HOWTO: GNOME - Remove Menu Icon Arrow

    What if I have a Core2Duo machine? I'm not sure what processor choice to put in there. Can anyone help me?

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