Install Classic Menu Indicator 0.09 in Ubuntu Linux

Last updated: March 10, 2014

Classic Menu Indicator

Classic Menu Indicator 0.09 was released recently with more languages support and now it use unity-lens-applications.menu for Ubuntu Unity.

As you may know, ClassicMenu Indicator is a notification area applet (application indicator) for the top panel of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop environment. It provides a simple way to get a classic GNOME-style application menu for those who prefer this over the Unity dash menu. Like the classic GNOME menu, it includes Wine games and applications if you have those installed.

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Classic Menu Indicator 0.09 contains below changes:

  • use $XDG_MENU_PREFIX (LP: #1228053)
  • use unity-lens-applications.menu for Unity
  • don’t use gtk.image_new_from_stock (LP: #1220961)
  • Added Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Galician, Greek, Norwegian Bokmal, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Turkish translations
  • Added some menu items to change configuration

Install Classic Menu indicator:

Download & install the DEB or build the source tarball: official download page.

Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 12.10 users can also install it from the developer’s PPA. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install classicmenu-indicator

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