Use Classic menu in Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Launcher
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In Ubuntu 11.04 Unity, you might prefer the left launcher bar but dislike the searching-style app menu in top-panel. Mac-like dock has classic app menu but there also has many useless shortcut icons that already shown in left launcher bar.
Although we cannot replace the top-panel with the classic gnome-panel, there’s a classic start menu can be added onto left launcher bar. See effect:
Steps:
1.) Open up a terminal window and install cardapio from PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cardapio-team/unstable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cardapio
2.) Create a launcher by:
mkdir ~/.local/share/applications gksudo gedit ~/.local/share/applications/Cardapio.desktop
copy and paste following :
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=cardapio
Name=menu
Icon=gnome-main-menu
Then close and save it.
3.) In nautilus file browser, navigate to “.local/share/applications” (Press Ctrl+H to view hidden files) and then drag and drop Cardapio.desktop onto left Launcher.
4.) Adjust the pop-up menu location.
Before this, when you click the icon on Launcher it pops-up the menu in middle area of screen. To adjust the pop-up location, open up CompizConfig-Setting-Manager(run sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager if not installed) and click into the configuration page of Place Windows.
In Fixed Window Placement tab, click New under Windows with Fixed Positions:
type “name=cardapio” (without quotes) after Positioned windows
check “Keep in work area”
set proper value of x or y positions
Cardapio on Launchpad.net: https://launchpad.net/cardapio
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Reader Comments
Is there a way to make cardapio icon installable from the unity app menu instead of from .local/share/applications?
I noticed if I delete the cardapio icon It shows up in the app menu on the unity launcher but will not allow me to drag and drop from there to the unity launcher.
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Thanks for this tip.
But for my desktop 1280×1024 resolution works with
x: -2083 an y:-1326.
Works just fine, success for you guys.
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Hello,
this is wonderful. But there is an error in 4.) Adjust the pop-up menu location. : name=cardapio not name=cardopio is right.
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great post thankxxx
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Thank you for the great post, now i can easy find my programs.
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Nahh…
I’ve not liked the new app launcher. I want to remove it and install docky, but I can’t. =/
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This a great solution to a problem that shouldn’t really exist.
But im finding the menu is a little slow to load. It takes a few seconds to loadup.. does anyone know why or can make it faster?
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Francisco Reply:
August 15th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Try pressing the keyboard shortcut:
SUPER + F1
same as:
“windows button” + F1
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Francisco Reply:
August 15th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
By the way, while interacting with the mouse it is really mandatory that it takes a while to loadup, otherwise it would be really annoying when you move the mouse close to the left border, cause the panel would pop in and out unexpectedly.
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Francisco Reply:
August 15th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Not SUPER + F1, but:
ALT + F1
same as:
ALT + F1
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thanx dude
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Pretty useful. But two things really annoying me. (1) Keyboard shortcut (from cardapio) will not work for first time in a session. If we set global shortcut, it takes 2 seconds to display. Adding in startup application makes menu visible instantly on login.
(2) Clicking on menu takes atleast 5 seconds to display
Even with these problems, I am using it because it is a great application.
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I noticed that the Cardapio window appears after a short delay the first time the Cardapio icon is clicked in the Unity launcher. Then, in Terminal, I entered ‘Cardapio –help’ and saw that there is a ‘cardapio hidden’ start option that starts Cardapio without opening a window. I used Startup Applications (you may have to install this tool) to add it to my auto-start applications list, and now the Cardapio window opens without a delay the first time I click on it.
Note: Cardapio now appears in the Ubuntu Software Center (or maybe so because I installed the Cadapio PPA?) There are several versions of Cardapio for different desktop environments. It appears that the Ubuntu Unity desktop uses the gnome-panel version of Cardapio, which runs on Python scripts, doesn’t use config files as mentioned in some instructions. Many of the pre-Unity instructions for installing Cardapio do not apply to the Unity desktop.
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Tip: You don’t need to set anything in Compiz Config Settings anymore for proper window placement.
Where it says “exec=” in the .desktop file, put “cardapio show-near-mouse” without quotes
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It’s sad just when Ubuntu was getting good they pull a bone headed stunt and call it unity.
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are you guys totaly crazy? this is not configuring, this hacking! this kind of linux S*c*S! but on the other hand… it’s obviousaly time to use the bash again more often….
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