Questions tagged [menu]
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What system menus are available?
Hello, just visiting.
Based on this: 'https://www.howtogeek.com/748310/whats-new-in-elementary-os-6-odin', I'm considering EOS. The type of menu system is a large factor in my decision.
I've taken a ...
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Application menu consistency
I'm a longtime macOS user and I discovered recently eOS. I like it for its minimalism and resemblance to macOS, and also because the eOS team seems dedicated to usability a lot. But when I look at the ...
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web search (or search online) from application menu?
May you please help me find out how I can "web search" or "search online" when I open the application menu?
Perhaps this habit created from Windows I can bring over to Elementary ...
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Can I hide some applications from menu, but leave it searchable?
I want hide some applications from menu, but leave it searchable from search field in app menu.
This beheavior is similar to Onboard application. Which icon not visible on menu, but may be find with ...
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Is there any way to organize or edit entries in the Applications menu?
I have several applications, for example "Joe", that litters entries in the Applications menu. I cannot see how to customize this menu. How does one remove entries without actually ...
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What happened to the Applications Menu?
When I was running Juno, I could go into Elementary Tweaks and set the number of columns & rows used in the Applications menu.
I couldn't change spacing or icon size, but that was OK. Extra ...
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Need help to delete icons from Applications Menu
I had installed AWS Workspaces, a .msi file through wine. It was installed successfully but didn't run the way I had expected so I uninstalled it through wine uninstaller but the icon still appears on ...
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Icon remains after removal
I installed and removed the epic store through lutris. Unfortunately the icon remained. How do I remove it?
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Power off from Panel menu doesn't work
If I use shutdown options from Panel menu (indicators: session) it shows the shutdown options:
no matter if I click shutdown or reboot, the system doesn't do anything. It doesn't care.
Shutdown in ...
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Enable "Always show Universal Access Menu" in ElementaryOS 5.0 Juno taskbar
Based on this answer Sync GNOME Calendar on elementary OS
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME gnome-control-center
I was able to enable accessibility settings like Zoom, mouse keyboard, large text, and many ...
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Always on top of a full-screen app?
An editor (notepadqq) is opened in a full screen mode. I need a calculator app (SpeedCrunch) to be always visible on top of the editor in the same workspace. When I set the calc to be 'always on top' ...
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Menubar/wingpanel transparency behavior [duplicate]
I'm writing about some confusion on my end regarding how Wingpanel transparency works with respect to different backgrounds.
What I want:
The effect I am going for on my desktop is reflected by the ...
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Right click uninstall/context in apps menu
Everytime I want to uninstall, or go to the file location of an app from either the app menu or the dock [plank], I always instinctively just right click them, although obviously the only options are ...
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Files file manager tool bar menu Gone "file edit view" disabled
Files file manager tool bar menu Gone .. "file edit view" disabled
by accident
- How do I get it to show again?
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How to disable animations for the applications menu?
I installed elementary tweaks and disabled animations...ordinary windows' animation is gone, however the application menu's animation is still there....
Any way to disable application menu's ...
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Firefox right button on selected text start Inspect Tool not right button menu
I test Elementary OS 5.0 (Juno). When I use Firefox and select some text press right button I get strange behavior. I do not see the menu but I see the Inspect tool from Firefox.
My question is this ...
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Responsiveness delay in menu, most apps and right clicking
Recently (after recent updates) I noticed that I am seeing some freezing.
To replicate:
1- Boot up desktop PC with GeForce GTX 750 card, 32 GB of RAM and an Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz CPU.
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How to fix bad drawing menu?
My menu appears whit like duplicated box in the background on different stiles. Why its this happening? how to fix it?
Thanks
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How to revert Super to Super + Space?
I changed the Super+Space shortcut to Super using some command I don't remember now (It's been 2-3 weeks). But I don't like it, it gets in the way many times during my work, and also Super+Space never ...
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I can't find the program "details"
In the app-center, I see I have an app "details" (gnome-program). I can't see it in my menu and neither if I type it in the search field.
I had a similar problem with gnome contacts: I installed it, ...
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How can I make wingpanel look right with a 3rd-party stylesheet?
I have installed the XGTK theme and the wingpanel has become white in fullscreen mode with white text. And the colors of pop-up menus like "turn off" or "wi-fi" are wrong and unreadable. I've managed ...
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Add 'Share Dropbox link' to Files right click menu
I'm trying to create a .contract file for pantheon-files that will produce a shareable link for a file/folder within my Dropbox.
So far, I have this:
[Contractor Entry]
Name=Share Dropbox link
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How can I get menus with icons in Loki?
I try to set icons for programs and context menus by dconf under org>gnome>desktop>interface>menus-have-icons but didn't work, help!
Expected results:
(in Freya I think I got this using Ubuntu-Tweak)...
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Left and right click on panel icons shows the same context-menu that works only if clicked with the same mouse button that triggered the menu
Unlike in panels that look similar from other desktops (Ubuntu Unity, Cinnamon, etc), left and right clicking the panel icons shows the same menu options. This is true for 'systray' icons of all ...
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What is Nepomuk Cleaner? And why does it keep recreating its .desktop file after I delete it?
When I don't use one of the default applications in elementary OS I usually hide it from the Applications menu using MenuLibre, rather than uninstalling them. However I can't seem to be able to do ...
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Context menu of toolbar icon doesn't work [closed]
I have Elementary OS Freya on my desktop computer. I installed some applications, which appear in toolbar (dropbox, steam, xneur, ...). But when I open an context menu from toolbar icon and select any ...
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icon not displaying in menu bar [duplicate]
I am using Elementary OS Freya and since I installed a program not using the included software manager, I get an icon in the menu bar like this:
I tried to do
sudo apt-get update -> Sudo apt-get ...
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When I add a .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications it appears but doesn't open from Applications menu
So I've made this .desktop file:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Team Speak 3
Comment=TS
Exec="/home/nicolas/Programs/TeamSpeak3-Client-linux_amd64/ts3client_runscript.sh"
Path="/home/nicolas/Programs/...
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How to get application menus in elementary OS?
I just downloaded elementary OS and did a fresh install and noticed that apps have no menus (File, View, Edit, etc.).
So I searched on Google and found something to add a "Global Menu" similar to OS ...
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How to remove notepad from Files/open-with context menu?
Installing Wine brings notepad in the Open with - context menu of the file manager.
How to remove Notepad option from the context menu of the File manager?
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Top menu bar like OS X or Ubuntu?
As the title said, is there a way to tweak this feature in elementary OS? Menu bar of every application should show on the top bar like OS X.
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Menu icons broke after reboot
A picture is worth a thousand words...
The app icons in the menu bar for wallch and syntastic were replaced by the broken-monitor icon after a reboot and I'm not sure why. They were working fine ...
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Menu in toolbar not appearing [closed]
When I open a program like firefox, for example, the toolbar looks like this:
But when I minimize the windows and reopen it, then the menu 'File, Edit...' etc disappears:
Why does this happen? And ...
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Super Key Menu Unhide [closed]
I used the command below to enable the Super Key Menu.
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings panel-main-menu "['Super_L', 'Super_R']"
Command Source: Can I change the Applications Dropdown ...
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Battery Indicator only show 70% during charging
The Battery Percentage Indicator on the menu bar only show 70% when charging. Is there something wrong with that? Or is the developer decide to make it 70% for charging default?
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Battery Percentage (%) Indicator on menu bar does not show 100% when fully charged
When I switched to elementary OS last week I noticed my battery indicator stops at 90%. How can I fix this? How do I know if this is an
elementary issue or other distributions too? Because even ...
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Application menus are not showing [closed]
I installed elementary OS today and found that in some applications the menus are not shown when clicked. It is not like I see the menu but not the text of the items, but rather that if I click on an ...
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Why do I get differently styled menus in different applications?
I have been using elementary OS for a while and I have noticed there is slight difference in the styles of different Apps. For example the menu in Firefox is like this :
Note: - I have configured ...
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Contract file to mount iso?
What would be the content of a .contract file in /usr/share/contractor for a menu entry like 'Mount iso'?
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