Hello!
I’ve just tried out the ubuntu budgie 18.04 the first time and I really miss the unity global menu which saves a lot of space.
I’ve found a ppa to try out “How To Enable Global Menus in Ubuntu Budgie | Ubuntu Budgie”, but when adding the source it complains it’s missing:
The team named ‘~ubuntubudgie-dev’ has no PPA named ‘ubuntu/global-menu-test’
Please choose from the following available PPAs:
- ‘bde’: budgie desktop environment
- ‘mailnag’: mailnag
- ‘testdropby’: test dropby
- ‘unstable-test’: test unstable
How to get it fixed or is there a setting to enable global menu in budgie 18.04?
just look in the menu for “budgie applets” - install the global menu applet. Log out - login and add the global menu applet to your panel.
Thanks!
That easy! I basically needed the global menu, pixel saver applets plus removing center positioned applets from top panel to get it unified as was in unity desktop.
Great success!
don’t forget you can also use the autohide feature of the panel to get a few pixels.
If you are using Pocillo - there is a Pocillo-slim variant in budgie-settings which again saves lots more pixels.
Just be aware that longest app-menus ( LibreOffice, Gimp… ) might get truncated when global menu is left aligned : their far right parts from center of panel might be missing.
And strangely enough, put global menu applet at center of panel gives enough room for the whole app-menus to be displayed.
( example : Expand option in global menu applet settings )