This project is a fork of gnomehud with the adition of a global menu bar. To install it you have to download this repo and install the extension copying/moving the [email protected] folder into ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. Then, you have to run the app with ./run.sh.
You can also bring a HUD menu with Alt + Space.
This is a prototype, as I don’t know if people will like or how much it will last until devs nuke it, so fell free to let me know your opinion.
You can install the modules with
sudo apt install libbamf3-dev bamfdaemon libkeybinder-3.0-dev appmenu-gtk2-module appmenu-gtk3-module unity-gtk-module-common
And install the python dependency:
pip3 install fuzzysearch
And then configure the following files:
- Create the file
~/.gtkrc-2.0and appendgtk-modules="appmenu-gtk-module" - The file
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.inishould have the linegtk-modules="appmenu-gtk-module"under [Settings]. If it doesn’t exist create it and paste the following
[Settings]
gtk-modules="appmenu-gtk-module"
I got it to run on a vm, since Arch is so customizable I can’t guaranted it will work on all system, but the modules installed were
pacman -S bamf appmenu-gtk-module libkeybinder3 libdbusmenu-gtk2 libdbusmenu-gtk3 libdbusmenu-qt5
You also have to install fuzzysearch with pip (pip3 install fuzzysearch) and edit the files explained on the Ubuntu section.
If you don’t want to have to hover the menu to view it, change FORCE_SHOW_MENU in extension.js to true, and reload the shell (Alt+F2, r).
The AppMenu button is the gnome button that appears on the top panel. You can set SHOW_APPMENU_BUTTON to true if you want that. If you are using Unite extension, you can set the button to show the app name instead of the title, otherwise it will be to long and the menu will appear at the right side of the panel.
In some gnome themes, the buttons have a small spacing beetween them. This can make the buttons easy to miss and unfocusing our window if it’s not maximized. To fix this, add this somewhere on your gnome-shell.css theme:
#panel #panelLeft {
spacing: 0px; }
#panel #panelLeft .panel-button {
spacing: 0px; }
If you manage to make the program work and want to have it running automatically at startup you can add an entry to gnome-session-properties with the name of the program and the path to execute it.