appmenuunity
I'm fairly excited for Unity, as it looks like a promising new direction for Ubuntu. However, I do have a concern – will it be possible to use Unity without the global menu?
I have my window manager set to focus-follows-mouse/sloppy focus, and find the productivity gains to be immense. Sloppy focus is incompatible, however, with global menus, as it is possible for the focus to change while you move from window to menu.
Will Unity support an option to use window menus while still using Unity?
If you want one particular application to not use the global menu you can set a little known (but very useful) environment variable: UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0
Thus, the following entered in a terminal will start gimp with the global-menu disabled:
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 gimp-2.6
You'll note the global menu is disabled for Gimp - it's now with the main Gimp window.
As a suggestion, if you launch Gimp via a launcher icon, copy the /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop file to your home folder ~/.local/share/applications (create if necessary).
Change the exec= value to a script file - for example /home/dad/launchgimp.sh
Copy and paste UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 gimp-2.6 into this new file and give it execute rights (chmod +x ~/launchgimp.sh)
Logout and login.
No, you can't (only if someone will make an application/program to do so or if you select Mirror displays in System settings > Hardware > Displays). The thing you're asking is inconsistent.
Think that you have one application (Firefox) opened on the display #1 and another one (let say Chromium) on the display #2. Now, you look at the display #2, so you use Chromium and you will see in global menu the menu for Chromium. What reason do you have now to see in global menu the menu for Firefox that is displayed on display #1? And vice versa. This makes no sense...
Best Answer
11.04 - 13.10
Yes, the Desktop version of Unity will use the global menu by default.
Unity will continue to run without it and your menus will appear inside the application windows as normal. You can also tell the appmenu to ignore specific applications if you're having a problematic app.
The command line way to remove the package is:
Removing the appmenu will break the HUD feature