Weird application menu behaviour

Jim Byrnes jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Sat Feb 8 00:53:18 UTC 2014


On 02/07/2014 04:28 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 10:59 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:Take a look here:
> http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/unsettings/ at
>> Unsettings.  It has a option to turn off the global menu, is I think how
>> I got rid of them dropping down from the top bar. Also has an option to
>> turn off the overlay scroll bars .
>
> That is exactly what I needed. many thanks! This is almost identical to
> unity-tweak-tool and gnome-tweak-tool, bit neither of them has the
> menu-bar-on-the-window option.
>
> Presumably all these tweaks are done by setting values in configuration
> files - but where are all the multitudinous possibilities documented?
>
> Odd that so many things are possible, and yet so little access to them
> is provided.
>
>>> 2: Eclipse won't show me the drop-down menus!
>>
>> Can't help you here.
>
> But you did! With the menu bar on the window, not global, the menus work
> as they should.
>
> Now if I could just work out why "spread all windows" sometimes doesn't
> actually render some windows - just their outlines when I mouse over
> them. Irritating but not a dealbreaker.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Regards, K.
>

Glad I helped.  The global menus just never made any sense to me.

Regards,  Jim





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