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Ives
Asked: 2018-05-15 04:50:52 +0800 CST

How can I have an application menu like macOS?

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This is how application menu on my Mac.

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And this is on ubuntu 18.04.
There is only a menu item quit inside Pycharm on the top bar, other menu items like File, Edit, View are on the different bar, how can I make it look like macOS?

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BTW, when I googling it, I found this extension. but looks like it doesn't work on 18.04 and makes system unstable.

menu globalmenu 18.04 menu-bar

2 Answers

  1. I know for a fact that Unity has it. It's slightly hidden though. It only shows when you are hovering your mouse over title bar.

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  2. GNOME cannot do this.

    Unity can and is still available in the 20.04 repositories. Or, you can try the free Ubuntu Unity remix -- https://ubuntuunity.org/

    I am running this on 1 machine and it's pretty good. Not perfect but it works.

    Alternatively, I believe that both MATE and KDE 5 can be customised to look and work in a Mac-like manner, with a global menu bar at the top of the screen and a dock for launching and switching apps along one screen edge. I have not tried this myself, though.

    KDE: https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-look-like-mac.html

    MATE: http://mate-macos.blogspot.com/p/making-ubuntu-mate-look-like-macos.html

    Of course both MATE and KDE have Ubuntu flavours.

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