Here is my november setup on my Asus eee 1101HA, running ubuntu jaunty (9.04) with gnome.
I have to try a lighter environment because gnome eats too much memory, unfortunately no time at the moment.
You’ll find below most of the used ressources in this setup.
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Here’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.
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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
As I’ve seen requests for a dark elegant theme, I’ve started to work on this.
This is again deerived of Elegant Brit (by fmrbpensador AKA What is in a name? on ubuntuforums.org)
There is now a flat variant with corresponding metacity and emerald themes (links bellow).
Here’s a first release of it, including the metacity theme (emerald will come soon). There is now an emerald theme for each variant.
These themes are not global/mac menu ready (hopefuly also come soon).here is a mac/global menu version.
It might have some bugs, please let me know if you find some. Comments and suggestions ares welcome.
Hope you’ll enjoy it
Install by extracting in your ~/.themes directory or drag and drop the tarball in the theme manager.
Note: to have metacity buttons on the left, open gconf-editor, find the key /apps/metacity/general/button_layout and change it to : menu:minimize,maximize,close
Update : 1.0.3 :
– slight color changes (widgets borders, notebook and tabs with a less dark grey)
– started and added a flat variant with the corresponding metacity.
Full changelog availaible in the tarball.
» download Elegant Dark (Gtk & metacity)
» download Elegant Dark Flat G(tk & Metacity)
» download Elegant Dark (emerald theme)
» download Elegant Dark Flat (emerald theme)
Here’s two new versions of my Elegant mod : a flat gray one and a black bar one (the closest to elegant brit and elegant one).
These two have the corresponding metacity theme included, based on elegant brit metacity theme (thanks once more to fmrbpensador).
The emerald theme that comes with the MacMenu version of Elegant Cold Blue can be used with the flat version gtk theme (same colors). I haven’t made a mod of the elegant brit emerald to use with the black bar version but the elegant brit emerald should fit though the close button is orange.
They are not global or mac menu ready (see my previous post if you need a global or mac menu version).
Screenshots tell more than words, click them for a larger view.
» Elegant Cold Blue Gtk and metacity themes (black bar)
» Elegant Cold Blue Gtk and metacity themes (flat gray)
Install by extracting in your ~/.themes directory or drag and drop the tarball in the theme manager.
Note: to have metacity buttons on the left, open gconf-editor, find the key /apps/metacity/general/button_layout and change it to : menu:minimize,maximize,close
Credits to original authors in the source files.
This 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
The 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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Fortunately, some solutions came out from the ubuntuforums.org thread mentioned in the previous post. Here are the patch and the applet that I have grabbed from avb’s post in page 99 of this thread, the no underline patch has been made with an idea from page 52 of the macmenu ubuntuforums.org thread (post at the bottom of the page) :
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