# GUIDE: How to fix the Global Menu applet, to display all the items when is placed on the left

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/guide-how-to-fix-the-global-menu-applet-to-display-all-the-items-when-is-placed-on-the-left/2233>\
**Category:** Budgie Applets\
**Created:** [July 5, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/guide-how-to-fix-the-global-menu-applet-to-display-all-the-items-when-is-placed-on-the-left/2233 "2019-07-05T08:30:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/guide-how-to-fix-the-global-menu-applet-to-display-all-the-items-when-is-placed-on-the-left/2233/2 "2019-07-05T08:44:01Z")

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Excellent!

The real fix is to change the “visibility” of the Center GTK Box - from visible to invisible.

You can test this by running:

```
GTK_DEBUG=interactive budgie-panel --replace

```

Then navigating to the center GTKBox for the panel and changing the visibility property.  
The code is here [https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/blob/master/src/panel/panel.vala](https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/blob/master/src/panel/panel.vala) - so at the bit that populates the panel it needs to say “and finally are there any more child objects in the GTKBox - if not, then set the visibility property to hidden”

Anyway - the above is useful for anyone who wants to have a try “hacking” the desktop code. Happy to include any small patch developed to resolve this for all (ubuntu and anyone else interested)budgie desktop users

> [@How to hack the budgie desktop on ubuntu](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/how-to-hack-the-budgie-desktop-on-ubuntu/574):
>
> Often the hardest part for budding new developers is how to start. So here are a few notes I made on how to start changing code in budgie-desktop itself. Make sure your package management system is up-to-date and install the dev scripts sudo apt update sudo apt install devscripts now run to enable the source code files from the repo: software-properties-gtk Click on the “Source code” checkbox Click Close, Reload Install all the development package dependencies: sudo apt build-dep budgie…

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