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Install gnome globalmenu 0.7 series

Posted by ayoli on Thu 8 January 2009
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gmHere’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.7 series from trunk on your desktop.

This has been tested on Ubuntu intrepid ibex but it should work on hardy too. It should also work with other distributions, except for the first step (dependencies install).
Globalmenu works with “real” gtk applications. That means globalmenu will not work with firefox and openoffice.

Big thanks to rainwoodman and lviggiani for their awesome work on this very useful application.
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How to install globalmenu 0.6 on ubuntu intrepid

Posted by ayoli on Mon 10 November 2008
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Here’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.6 on your desktop.
This has been tested on Ubuntu intrepid ibex but it should work on hardy too. It should also work with other distributions, except for the first step.
Globalmenu works with “real” gtk applications. That means globalmenu will not work with firefox and openoffice.
Another note : globalmenu doesn’t require anymore to patch libgtk, good news :)
Big thanks to rainwoodman for his awesome work on this very useful applet.
A new version of this guide is now available here

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Gtk Theme Elegant Cold blue MacMenu

Posted by ayoli on Mon 17 March 2008
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17032008.pngThis is not the the first time that I modify a gtk theme to fit my needs but this is maybe the first time I’m really happy with it :)
So I decided to release it. Maybe I won’t be alone to like it !

Elegant Cold Blue is a mod of Elegant Brit by fmrbpensador (AKA What is in a name? on ubuntuforums.org) who I thank a lot for all his awesome work.
This mod had a bit darker background color and all orange turned to a cold blue. It is also macmenu (and globalmenu) ready.
I also made an emerald theme (window decorations) that complete the theme.

Install by extracting to your ~/.themes directory or drag and drop the tarball to the theme manager.
Note : you may want to set Panel/menubar-black.png as panel background using panel properties dialog.

Elegant cold blue macmenu gtk theme
Elegant flat gray emerald theme

Global menu the new gnome macmenu

Posted by ayoli on Wed 12 March 2008
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global menu new mac menuThe popular hack to gtk and applet that imitates the Mac menu isnt’t maintained by its original creator AdQ.
Fortunately, rainwoodman started a new project based on adq patch and applet (now, totally rewritten from scratch) : globalmenu.
Now, the menus are detached to the panel applet only if this one is running, the menu key bindings (eg Alt+F) are now functional.

Here is a short guide with two possible methods to install global menu on Ubuntu.

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