[Wylug-discuss] Wylug-discuss Digest, Vol 78, Issue 7

[James Holden]

On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 10:55 +0100, Smylers wrote:
> James Holden writes:
>  
> > I was getting there, but since I worked out how to get the menus back
> > back at the top of the window (not the top of the screen), re-gained
> > focus-follows-mouse and I'm much happier now.
> 
> Ooh, please could you share how to do this?

You can uninstall the indicator-appmenu package, which is the library
responsible for moving the menus, but this will make the change
system-wide.

The effect can be without removing the package by setting the
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY environment variable to an empty string, eg:

$ UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= gnome-terminal

You should then see the menu at the top of the window rather than at the
top of the screen. I wasn't able to work out how to set this variable
for the entire session so I just removed the package.

The focus follows mouse is a gconf setting in:

/apps/metacity/general/focus_mode

Use gconf-editor to set it to "mouse" instead of "click".


Cheers,

James

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