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Use Classic menu in Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Launcher

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http://ubuntuguide.net – 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. See effect: 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 2.) Create a launcher by: mkdir ~/. (HowTos)

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Submitted by more on 05/16/2011

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