For those who prefer classic Gnome-style application menu, there’re two replacements in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric: classicmenu-indicator for Unity, and app-menu-extension for Gnome Shell.
1.) In Ubuntu Unity using classicmenu-indicator
This is an applet indicator in the system tray area. Ubuntu 11.10 and 11.04 user with Unity can install this by adding following untrusted ppa.
ClassicMenu Indicator is a indicator applet for Unity, that provides the main menu of Gnome2/Gnome Classic. It is developed and tested on Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”. So far, it is alpha software and still may have some bugs.
ClassicMenu Indicator provides a simple way to get a classic GNOME-style application menu for those who prefer this over the Unity dash menu. This simple tutorial is going to show you how to install it in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal.
The PPA that contains the packages of ClassicMenu Indicator hasn’t updated for Ubuntu 12.10 yet.
Love Ubuntu, but find yourself infuriated by the lack of a traditional menu? Don’t panic: simply install ClassicMenu Indicator. This simple program brings the simple menu of Gnome 2 to the indicator area. Sure: it’s not the perfect location for a menu, but it’s there when you need it.
Indicator applet for displaying and changing CPU frequency on-the-fly. It provides the same functionality as the Gnome CPU frequency applet, but doesn’t require Gnome panel and works under Unity.
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Love Ubuntu, but find yourself infuriated by the lack of a traditional menu? Don’t panic: simply install ClassicMenu Indicator. This simple program brings the simple menu of Gnome 2 to the indicator area.
This brief tutorial will show you how to display Places menu on Ubuntu Unity panel and make this menu indicator starts at log-in.
First download the indicator:
download indicator-places
It’s .tar.gz or .zip file. Extract and go into new created folder, and click to run indicator-places.py
To start this indicator at login, launch Startup Applications from the dash home.
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With this indicator you can set your screen brightness in Ubuntu Unity.
Features:
Clicking the icon shows you all the possible brightness values.
The current value is indicated with a dot.
Clicking a menu item sets the brightness to the desired value.
Scroll wheel event is enabled on the icon.
Hi,
I'm trying to remove unity from a ubuntu desktop, and later install MATE.
I tried to remove the following packages:
For 11.10
(per http://askubuntu.com/questions/6302/...u-remove-unity)
Code:
sudo apt-get remove unity unity-2d-places unity-2d unity-2d-panel unity-2d-spread unity-asset-pool unity-services unity-lens-files unity-lens-music unity-lens-applications gir1.2-unity-4.0 unity-
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