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Is there a possibility to disable menu capturing

Asked by Axel H.

I wonder if there is a possibility to disabeling the capuring of menubars into the top panel?
Apart from the fact I don't like this Mac style stuff, it's hiding essential menu items like "File" in Zend Studio. And I like the compiz feature to focus a window by placing the mouse over it, but this is unusable with the menus in the top panel because the window focus is lost when moving the mouse away.

I'd really appreciate if this behavior could be disabled.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you use classic desktop instead of Unity, you can configure how you wish. Unity is not like mac as the panel is on the side ;)

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Axel H. (staff-pro-unreal) said : 		#2

Hi Andy,

thanks for your answer. But placing application menus on the top of the screen is indeed Mac style (Or Amiga Workbench style, whatever you prefer) ;-)
The problem is that I'd like to try and use many of the Unity features but that particular one is quite annoying to me. I was always looking forward to see new approaches in desktop usability like gnome do offers. Unity offers the same and the Zeitgeist integration sound quite promising. But I'm really missing the ability to modify it to fit my needs. If I wanted to be pinned to a particular interface some one decides "It's superior, Wow and must not be changed because it's perfect", I could stick with Windows or Mac. Linux should definitely not go into this direction. I love it's freedom and configurability. If unity does not offer the feature to configure it, then it should be added - I guess some other people would appreciate it as well.

So my question is can this feature be disabled while still using unity? I just want to use the Q/A section before filing a feature request and wasting the developers time.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Unity is only the way Ubuntu is going. Don't confuse Linux with Ubuntu as they aren't the same thing. If you look at other Linux based distributions (which is what Ubuntu is) like Suse, Puppy or Xpud to name but a few, they don't use anything Unity shaped but are still at the core, the same OS. Linux.

I'm not very conversant with Unity yet but am learning. Maybe others can contribute.

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Axel H. (staff-pro-unreal) said : 		#4

I found an answer myself:

the environmen variable UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 needs to be set before starting the application and unity will not capture the menu.
This is OK so far but should be considered to made available as config option.

Thanks four your contributions.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Great share. Hopefully others will find this and get fixed up too

Glad you got the gold

=D