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Global menu bar in elementary OS?
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I tried to follow this guide to get a global menu bar on my installation of Freya. Unfortunately, the section for Freya did not work and the global menu bar appeared on the right side of the time and then shortly after disappeared.
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The PPA for that experimental wingpanel build warns pretty explicitly not to use it, so I assume it's broken right now. I wonder if the super-wingpanel method still works in Freya?
I'd love to see this officially supported. I still find it surprising that Ubuntu and OS X both do this by default and yet an Ubuntu-based distro designed to look so much like OS X doesn't even give you the option.
Combining the Global Menu and Title Bar
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Is there a way to combine these two elements together, like in standard GNOME systems?
I understand that the global menu there is part of the panel so that has to go, but is there an option in the window settings that can enable the same effect in the actual window?
So far I've found the application menu title bar button which does the same thing but in drop down, unfortunately that's not what I want.
There's a bunch of whitespace that can be used up here.
Top Comment: Perhaps you want Material-decoration theme with Locally Integrated Menus
Can weak aura show a progress bar for the global cooldown?
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sick of spamming buttons. is there a way to show the global cooldown as a progress bar?
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There's this one, a circular bar anchored to the cursor. https://wago.io/oBRVDTlWK
But making your own with a normal bar is simple. New > Progress Bar, Trigger > Status > Global Cooldown
Bind left mouse to space bar ? (force move)
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Does anyone succeeded to force move in this game ? i.e make the character move using another key instead of using left mouse ?I find it such a stupid design not to have this option in game. Especially when you have RSI from clicking a bunch of random notifications in a cluttered UI for rewards and such.
I tried using autohotkey to rebind, but it doesn't seem to work in-game for some reasons ( outside of the game it still works....). Can anyone share some working script ?
And to make matter worse, at the moment if you hold left mouse then character move, but it stops when you release it, it's very annoying and I dont get why it has to be that way ( for example when you need to click on quest tip to navigate to the next objective ).
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Also this, been doing this in other ARPGs for years, hard habit to break.
Is there a tiling window manager with a global menu bar?
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I like i3, but I hate every application having its own menu bar. I really prefer that there be one permanent global menu bar at the top of the screen. Is there any i3/xmonad/etc style WM that offers this?
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Uhm, what you are asking for is a Window Manager containing a Global Menu. A Global Menu can only be contained by a panel, like xfce4-panel, not by a window manager.
Sorry if I misunderstood you.
Only Unity has a global menu by default, the only other options are the xfce4-panel with the vala panel appmenu addition or the mate-panel, I don't know how to set it up though.
Why no global menu in gnome?
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Since gnome doesn't have anything useful to display except for the application name on the left side of what I feel is the "top menu bar", why isn't it used for global menu like how macOS does? I am not saying "Do it like cupertino" because it might look appealing or whatsoever, but my reason for saying this is some applications like VLC, VirtualBox etc have a menu bar in them and it would be awesome to have that in more applications and have it unified across as many applications as possible.
I raised this point because I firstly used Windows since my childhood for at least 5 years and later switched to Ubuntu 6 months after I installed windows 10. I got familiar to *nix terminal by using Ubuntu primarily and then bought a MacBook Pro for my software engineering diploma (as no laptop had good *nix support at that time except for MacBooks). I have used the global menu a lot and I just feel that the "hamburger" icon/menu - at least in nautilus - is inadequate to put it lightly.
Is there any reason why gnome doesn't have a global menu system in gnome itself, instead of extensions, like macOS? I am seriously curious about this :")
Top Comment: For me the usefulness of a menu stuck at the top really depends on the screen size. On a laptop it's a good way to save a load of space. Plug that laptop in to a big monitor, and suddenly it's really annoying to have the menu miles away from the window it is linked to.