Dose anyone know how to make application folders like the 'utilities' folder? It's because I have a lot of apps and want to group them by topic.
The Ubuntu Heads-Up Display (HUD) - you love it or you hate it. Personally I rather like a classic desktop, so I use Xfce or GNOME-fork Cinnamon, and I'd like to keep those menu's where they are.
But the HUD is pretty awesome when your menus are complex and you forgot where an option sits. This makes that search trick very interesting.
I know the HUD is Unity specific. I am looking for a HUD-like tool to complement the menu in shells other than Unity.
There is Appmenu Runner for KDE that does this. There is also appmenu-qt for KDE.
Problem with the above is that it uses KDE libs, and it only works for KDE apps.
This is Linux, there aught to be something like this for GNOME/GTK apps, right?
Looking for any tool that can search the menus. I already use(d) Synapse, Kupfer and GNOME Do, but those are simply app-launchers (with some tricks). Something like that would suffice if only they included searching the menus for the currently focused application.
The HUD allows users to activate menu items by typing part of the name. It uses a fuzzy search algorithm that will highlight partial matches. It can match menu items that are multiple layers deep in an application's menu hierarchy. The feature, which replaces traditional menu accelerators, is activated by pressing the alt key.
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Gvim does not have a global menu (appmenu / application menu) in 12.04, and when starting gvim from a terminal, the following warning appears in the terminal after 25 seconds:
** (gvim:20320): WARNING **: Unable to create Ubuntu Menu Proxy: Timeout was reached
How to fix this?
I'm fairly excited for Unity, as it looks like a promising new direction for Ubuntu. However, I do have a concern - will it be possible to use Unity without the global menu?
I have my window manager set to focus-follows-mouse/sloppy focus, and find the productivity gains to be immense. Sloppy focus is incompatible, however, with global menus, as it is possible for the focus to change while you move from window to menu.
Will Unity support an option to use window menus while still using Unity?
The new indicator-appmenu in Maverick breaks the LyX menu: the application menu is not shown either in the application window nor in the applet. (See Bug report.)
As a workaround while the bug is fixed, is there a way to make an exception for the applet, so that LyX would be ignored and the applet could still be used for everything else? Something akin to Maximus exceptions.