Weird application menu behaviour

[Liam Proven]

On 7 February 2014 03:28, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> 1: The application menus are not on the application windows. They have
> flown, MAC-like, to the main task bar at the top of the screen. If I
> lived with standard click-to-focus, this would be less of a problem, but
> I use "sloppy" focussing, so if the mouse passes over any other window
> on its way up to the task bar, the menu I get is not the menu I want. Is
> there any way, in Unity, to have the application menus appear on the
> application windows?


Yes there are ways, but it they are hacks and break the way that Unity
is meant to work. If you can't adapt to a global menu (which I find no
problem, but then, I've been using Macs since the late 1980s) then I
would say you have 2 choices:

* give up your focus-follows-mouse thing and get used to it

or

* switch to a different desktop

If you try to bend Unity to your will, things will probably break.
You're going to have to redo your tweaks for every new Ubuntu version,
and the methods will probably change. Version upgrades may well fail
because of the tweaks; you will have to undo them, upgrade, and then
redo them. You will probably have errors and breakage in other
functions. You'll have to reproduce them on all the machines that you
use.

I don't advise it. I would say try GNOME 3 but I believe it is moving
to a global menu bar too. GNOME 3 in Classic Mode might work for you.

Alternatives: Maté, KDE, Xfce, LXDE - they're all good. Of course the
last 3 have official Ubuntu remixes.

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