Ubuntu 11.10 (So Far) Screenshot Tour

Posted Aug 27, 2011 16:00 UTC (Sat) by JohnLenz (guest, #42089)
In reply to: Ubuntu 11.10 (So Far) Screenshot Tour by rsidd
Parent article: Ubuntu 11.10 (So Far) Screenshot Tour

While I don't really like the Mac-style menubar on the top of the screen -- I prefer it on the window where my eyes are focussed -- I don't hate it as much as I expected. On a smaller screen I may even prefer it, I don't know.

If you want, you can disable this by setting the environment variable UBUNTU_MENUPROXY to nothing. I personally am fine with the menu bar the way it is, but some old apps I have don't show the menu properly. In that case, I start them in a script with "export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= "

Ubuntu 11.10 (So Far) Screenshot Tour

Posted Aug 28, 2011 15:53 UTC (Sun) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

Having to write your own script to launch an application is not a very user-friendly workaround though.

I find the global menu bar great on my netbook, acceptable on my laptop, but very annoying on my desktop...

Maybe it's because on the first I run almost all applications maximized, while on the last I run almost no applications maximized, and I tend to have some relatively smaller windows at the right & especially at the bottom-right, which is far away from the global menu on a hi-res screen.

I wish they would not use the global menu bar for non-maximized windows (or maybe provide both menu bars, if they think that's better).