unity: how to always show menus?

[Tom H]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Brendan Miller <catphive at catphive.net> wrote:
>
> I just installed 11.04. The main thing that's driving me nuts about
> the new unity interface, is that it hides menus until I mouse over the
> panel.
>
> How do I force it to always show menus?
>
> Also... is there some unity control panel somewhere? There don't seem
> to be any settings related to any of unity's new UI junk in the system
> settings panel.
>
> I also want to disable the new, weird, scrollbars. Anyone know how to
> disable those?

I'm now using Kubuntu (so I can't check) but I think that the Unity
launcher can be made not to auto-hide with
compizconfig-settings-manager - you can also resize it to a certain
extent with that application.