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How To Get A Global Menu In MATE Desktop

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-globalmenu-applet.png"><img alt="MATE Desktop GlobalMenu" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-globalmenu-applet_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MATE GlobalMenu is an applet forked from the old GNOME2 GlobalMenu project, which adds a global menu to the MATE panel.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mate GlobalMenu is based off the upstream GNOME GlobalMenu v0.7.10 and it only supports GTK2 applications, so don't expect Firefox, LibreOffice or Qt applications to work with this, but it's nevertheless an useful addition to the MATE desktop, especially for small screens.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The applet comes with various options:<br /><ul><li>show the active application icon and/or application title</li><li>display the menu both on the panel and inside the application window;</li><li>a "tiny" mode;</li><li>enable/disable F10 key to access the menu;</li><li>more.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to its <a href="https://github.com/jasmineaura/mate-globalmenu">GitHub page</a>, the applet is supposed to work with the latest stable MATE v1.4 and I can confirm that it works as I've tested it with Linux Mint 14 MATE (with MATE 1.4). According to some of our readers (see the comments), it does not work with Linux Mint 13 due to some missing dependencies.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install MATE GlobalMenu in Ubuntu / Linux Mint MATE / LMDE</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MATE GlobalMenu comes with a repository available for LMDE which works with Ubuntu 12.10 or Linux Mint 14 MATE (it doesn't work with Linux Mint 13, at least not with the default repositories). However, <b>the repository is unfortunately only available for 64bit</b>! <b>To add it and install MATE GlobalMenu, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>wget http://jas.gemnetworks.com/jasmineaura.gpg.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -<br />echo "deb http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian debian main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mate-globalmenu.list<br />echo "deb-src http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian debian main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mate-globalmenu.list<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-globalmenu</code></pre><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install MATE GlobalMenu via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mate-globalmenu/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For Ubuntu 12.04 / Linux Mint 13 or other Linux distributions, you'll have to compile it from source. <b>See the MATE GlobalMenu <a href="https://github.com/jasmineaura/mate-globalmenu">GitHub page</a> for more info and source code.</b></div><br /><br /><b>Important:</b><br /><br />Once installed, reload the MATE panels:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>killall mate-panel</code></pre><br />Then add the MATE GlobalMenu applet to the panel and enable the applet using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>mateconftool-2 --set /apps/mate_settings_daemon/gtk-modules/globalmenu-mate-panel --type bool true</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And then log out and log back in to avoid some crashes that might occur (those errors only show up when enabling the applet, after the logout it should work as expected) and also to get the applet preferences to work, or else you'll get an empty preferences dialog.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>thanks to <a href="http://www.lffl.org/2012/12/mate-arriva-global-menu-per-avere-il.html">lffl.org</a> for the info!</i></div>

How To Get A Global Menu In MATE Desktop

MATE GlobalMenu is an applet forked from the old GNOME2 GlobalMenu project, which adds a global menu to the MATE panel. Mate GlobalMenu is b...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP6Rc60uCG1g-t3sGxn5qRhN4yJD2SyIt8d1WwIWrE2DW6AHJJAij5u9FcaaHP242lWTYdbx1HrWqCi1gHlym_SI6ldkIE-hw776T8RjmoMf6-hTXFbNPIaHxLcvRwzFdvAUCWqzI_JDzn/s1600/cinnamon-bottom-notification-full.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon bottom notifications" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP6Rc60uCG1g-t3sGxn5qRhN4yJD2SyIt8d1WwIWrE2DW6AHJJAij5u9FcaaHP242lWTYdbx1HrWqCi1gHlym_SI6ldkIE-hw776T8RjmoMf6-hTXFbNPIaHxLcvRwzFdvAUCWqzI_JDzn/s320/cinnamon-bottom-notification-full.png" title="cinnamon bottom notifications" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon doesn't have an option to change the notification position on the screen yet, but you can do this by editing the theme CSS code </b>(cinnamon.css theme file)<b>.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a>Let's change the notifications position. <b>If you're using the default Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon edition theme (Nightlife Graphite)</b>, you have to edit the "<i>/usr/share/themes/Nightlife - Graphite/cinnamon/cinnamon.css</i>" file so open a terminal and run the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>gksu gedit "/usr/share/themes/Nightlife - Graphite/cinnamon/cinnamon.css"</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you're using the default Cinnamon theme</b> (used by default in LMDE), use the following command instead:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>gksu gedit /usr/share/cinnamon/theme/cinnamon.css</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>For other Cinnamon themes:</b>  </i><i>the <i>cinnamon.css</i> file path depends on the theme you're using (it's in the "cinnamon" folder inside the theme directory). To find out the cinnamon.css file path, open Nautilus and navigate to /usr/share/themes/ - here you'll find all the available themes -, double click the directory for the theme you're using you'll find a "cinnamon" folder where there's a "cinnamon.css" file which is the file you have to edit to change the notifications position.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy_AwgMROkC6G7JeeGgEu1iWqZJ-AJYwzCKuxvtETF5F0CMAa64XYNA7xpofWGc73twFPBnpw-3tLWCSULAJCpCcFswoKc-IbzVKUbw8YqkIBHGNkyt1n4nMVAMoW52c4iUg7fAQwCPB-6/s1600/cinnamon-css-file.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon.css" border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy_AwgMROkC6G7JeeGgEu1iWqZJ-AJYwzCKuxvtETF5F0CMAa64XYNA7xpofWGc73twFPBnpw-3tLWCSULAJCpCcFswoKc-IbzVKUbw8YqkIBHGNkyt1n4nMVAMoW52c4iUg7fAQwCPB-6/s320/cinnamon-css-file.png" title="cinnamon.css" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Then search for the following code:</b><br /><pre class="source-code"><code>margin-from-top-edge-of-screen: 30px;</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMqAPlazZ5QqpHYNGyL-jJYG0eGpXokH1hE-EyZyAGIFc4Gvua_xoXBzK91mZEqhi6zWXlrf9vGNSn6ncvZ8YxWtHLNBrvsJnlkKrhvA2zYE7KP1oCnFu1brUh858L2HnwAyR0JfnCfLr/s1600/cinnamon-bottom-notifications.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon notifications bottom" border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMqAPlazZ5QqpHYNGyL-jJYG0eGpXokH1hE-EyZyAGIFc4Gvua_xoXBzK91mZEqhi6zWXlrf9vGNSn6ncvZ8YxWtHLNBrvsJnlkKrhvA2zYE7KP1oCnFu1brUh858L2HnwAyR0JfnCfLr/s320/cinnamon-bottom-notifications.png" title="cinnamon notifications bottom" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>This is the margin from the top edge of the screen so this value changes the notifications position vertically</b> - change its value to whatever you want. If, for instance, you want the notifications to be displayed at the bottom right, you can enter the value of your screen vertical width minus 100 pixels (example: if you have a 1920x1080 screen resolution, your screen width is 1080px, so you would use 980 (1080-100) as the value).</div><br /><b>If you want to change the horizontal notifications position, search for:</b><br /><pre class="source-code"><code>margin-from-right-edge-of-screen: 20px;</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Just like its name says, this is the margin from the right edge of the screen. Once again, depending on your screen resolution, change its value to whatever you like.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Once you change the values, save the file, then open Cinnamon Settings and under Themes, select a different theme, then switch back to the theme you were using. This basically applies the changes so you can see the tweaked notifications in action.</b><b><br /></b></div><br /><b>Now, to send a test notification, firstly install libnotify-bin:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin</code></pre><b>And send a test notification using the following command:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>notify-send --icon=gtk-add "Test notification" "This is the message body"</code></pre><br /><i>For tweaking the default notifications in Ubuntu, see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/closable-movable-notifyosd.html">Closable / Movable NotifyOSD Notifications Available For Ubuntu 12.04</a></i><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://blog.desdelinux.net/cambiar-la-posicion-de-las-notificaciones-en-cinnamon/">DesdeLinux.net</a></i></div>

How To Change Notifications Position In Cinnamon

Cinnamon doesn't have an option to change the notification position on the screen yet, but you can do this by editing the theme CSS code...

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