Global Menu is an application for linux that emulates the Mac OSX menu in the top panel. A global menu is handy in saving horizontal screen space and utilizaing otherwise wasted space on the top Gnome panel.This works with all GTK application, therefore it won’t work with KDE based applications, Firefox, and Open Office.

To install Global Menu follow these instructions:

1. Add the Global Menu Repositories, System > Administration > Software Sources. Under the ‘Other Software’ tab add the Global Menu repositories.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/globalmenu-team/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

2. You will now need to import the repositorie’s GPG key in order to use it, you can download it here http://gnome2-globalmenu.googlecode.com/files/GlobalMenuKey.gpg

3. Import the GPG key under the authentication tab in the Software Sources application

4. If you have a previous version of Global Menu installed on your system, you will need to correctly remove it before you may continue to download and install the latest version of Global Menu

sudo apt-get remove gnome2-globalmenu

5. Install Global Menu:

sudo apt-get install gnome-globalmenu

Global Menu is now installed. To activate it, right click on you top panel and select ‘add to panel’, and then add the global menu applet.

Tags: Desktop, Gnome, GNU, GPL, GUI, Interface, Linux, Open Source, Technology, Tutorials, Ubuntu, Web

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