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.
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
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
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
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
check “Keep in work area”
set proper value of x or y positions
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