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Vala Panel Application Menu

This is Global Menu for using in Vala Panel and xfce4-panel. 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 this files: export GTK_MODULES=unity-gtk-module:$GTK_MODULES
• Add to .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file only: gtk-shell-shows-app-menu=true gtk-shell-shows-menubar=true
• Add to ~/.profile: export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=1
• For XFCE Only: open xfce4-settings-editor and add keys Gtk/ShellShowsMenubar and Gtk/ShellShowsAppmenu to xsettings hive of xfce4 settings.

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

Building unity-gtk-module from sources for distros other than Arch or Ubuntu

• bzr branch lp:unity-gtk-module
• git clone https://github.com/rilian-la-te/unity-gtk-module-packages.git
• Copy a patch from github package to unity-gtk-module branch
• patch -p0 -i "unity-gtk-module-gsettings.patch"
• ../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-gtk=2 --enable-gtk-doc --disable-static && make && sudo make install && ../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-gtk=3 --enable-gtk-doc --disable-static && make && sudo make install

Author

• Athor [email protected]

Special thanks:

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