Jan 08

Install gnome globalmenu 0.7 series

applications, computing, config 23 Comments »

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. Continue reading »

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Mar 24

Elegant Dark MacMenu

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After Elegant Dark, here comes the Elegant Dark MacMenu release, ready for global and macmenu.
You’ll have to add Panel/menubar-black.png (from the theme directory) as background for your panel using panel properties dialog (right click on an empty part of the panel and choose “properties” in the menu).

The corresponding metacity theme is included, there is also an emerald theme Elegant Dark Flat (link bellow). They give the flat looking, mac menu bar and panel have the original elgant dark menu colors.

» download Elegant Dark Mac Menu Gtk & Metacity
» download Elegant Dark Flat emerald theme

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Mar 17

Gtk Theme Elegant Cold blue MacMenu

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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

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Mar 12

Global menu the new gnome macmenu

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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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Nov 15

Mac Menu GTK compatible themes

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Here’s an (non exhaustive) list of mac menu compatible themes for gtk :


You can also hack your theme, like I did. I edited the gtkrc file of the theme I use. (the gtkrc file of your theme is located under ~/.themes/[YOUR_THEME_NAME]/gtk-2.0/gtkrc)

here’s the code I added in my gtkrc file :
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Oct 31

MacMenu Bar hack for Gnome 2.20 – GTK+ 2.12

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mac menu in actionFortunately, 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) :


NOTE : I have edited this entry to add the no underline patch and modifiy the instructions to use this patch.
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