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Disable Global Menu on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy

Last updated: October 23, 2013

This tutorial shows how to disable the global menu, so that each application having its own menu bar on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy.

Before:

global menu unity

After:

app menu unity

To do it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run the commands below to disable it.

sudo apt-get remove indicator-appmenu

Restart your computer to apply the changes.

For Firefox, go to Tools –> Add-ons –> Extensions and disable ‘Global Menu Bar integration’.

disable global menu in firefox

Enjoy!

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    7 responses to Disable Global Menu on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy

    1. Cash Advance Loan July 26, 2013 at 11:10 pm

      salubrious learn more

    2. Soured October 21, 2013 at 1:03 am

      This works in 13.04, but not in 13.10.

    3. ReneCD October 23, 2013 at 7:36 am

      As Soured said, doesn’t work in 13.10.

      The apt-get autoremove command seems to run fine except for this:

      Note, selecting ‘unity-gtk2-module’ instead of ‘appmenu-gtk’
      Note, selecting ‘unity-gtk3-module’ instead of ‘appmenu-gtk3’
      Package ‘appmenu-qt’ is not installed, so not removed

      Also, there are no “Global menu bar integration” plugin in Firefox anymore.

      Not sure if it’s safe to autoremove unity-gtk2 and 3?

      • ReneCD October 23, 2013 at 7:46 am

        Also, after removing these packages the unity and gnome tweak tools both misbehave, obviously this is something that shouldn’t have been changed.

        $ gnome-tweak-tool
        WARNING : Shell not installed or running
        WARNING : Error detecting shell
        Traceback (most recent call last):
        File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtweak/tweaks/tweak_shell_extensions.py”, line 199, in __init__
        raise Exception(“Shell not running or DBus service not available”)
        Exception: Shell not running or DBus service not available
        INFO : GSettings missing key org.gnome.nautilus.desktop (key computer-icon-visible)
        WARNING : Shell not running
        None
        INFO : GSettings missing key org.gnome.mutter (key workspaces-only-on-primary)
        Segmentation fault (core dumped)

        • Panda October 23, 2013 at 8:51 am

          Post updated!

          The new method works in Ubuntu 13.10, but only partially… some of windows will have no access to menus at all. Better to adjust on a per app basis thru setting an env in the app’s .desktop (& or quicklist entry

          Ex.’s –
          gedit
          Code:
          Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= gedit %U
          vlc( all qt4 apps
          Code:
          Exec=env QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 vlc %U

    4. Alex December 23, 2013 at 3:34 pm

      Worked great Ubuntu 13.10. Didn’t have to change any Firefox settings.