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Vala Panel Application Menu

This is Global Menu for using in Vala Panel, xfce4-panel and mate-panel (Budgie 10.x also planned). unity-gtk-module is used as backend.

Dependencies:

All:

• GLib (>= 2.40.0)
• GTK+ (>= 3.12.0)
• valac (>= 0.24.0)
• libbamf (>=0.5.0)

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Installation after building

• Create a .gtkrc in your home(~) directory
• Create a .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file in your home(~) directory
• Add to .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file in all distros: gtk-shell-shows-app-menu=true gtk-shell-shows-menubar=true
• Add to .gtkrc-2.0 file in Ubuntu-based: gtk-shell-shows-app-menu=1 gtk-shell-shows-menubar=1
• For XFCE Only: xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/ShellShowsMenubar -n -t bool -s true xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/ShellShowsAppmenu -n -t bool -s true
• Add to .profile and .bashrc on Ubuntu:

if [ -n "$GTK_MODULES" ]; then
    GTK_MODULES="${GTK_MODULES}:unity-gtk-module"
else
    GTK_MODULES="unity-gtk-module"
fi

if [ -z "$UBUNTU_MENUPROXY" ]; then
    UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=1
fi

export GTK_MODULES
export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY

Arch Linux

• Install from AUR unity-gtk-module-standalone-bzr for appmenu to work
• Install Appmenu to get appmenu for Qt4 Applications to work. Qt 5.7 must work out of the box.
• Install these libdbusmenu-glib libdbusmenu-gtk3 libdbusmenu-gtk2 to get Chromium/Google Chrome to work

For distros other than Arch or Ubuntu

• Build vala-panel-appmenu with -DENABLE_UNITY_GTK_MODULE=ON
• Follow instructions into README

Author

• Athor [email protected]

Special thanks:

• Ikey Doherty [email protected] for sidebar widget and icontasklist