GNOME Shell Extension to add a MacOS-like menu to the top panel in GNOME Shell. This project is a fork of gonzaarcr/Fildem which is a fork of gnomehud with the addition of a global menu bar. This is a prototype, and GTK-4 plans to remove exporting of appmenu module, so compatibility with GTK-4 will likely never work barring upstream changes.

Ubuntu:

sudo apt install libbamf3-dev bamfdaemon libkeybinder-3.0-dev appmenu-gtk2-module appmenu-gtk3-module unity-gtk-module-common

Arch:

Note upstream tested Arch in VM, compatibility is uncertain.

pacman -S bamf appmenu-gtk-module libkeybinder3 libdbusmenu-gtk2 libdbusmenu-gtk3 libdbusmenu-qt5

pip3 install fuzzysearch

• For GTK-2.0, make sure the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (or similar for your config. I use ~/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkrc) exists and append gtk-modules="appmenu-gtk-module"
• For GTK-3.0, make sure the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini exists and has the following line gtk-modules="appmenu-gtk-module" under [Settings]. If it doesn’t exist create it and paste the following:

[Settings]
gtk-modules="appmenu-gtk-module"

git clone https://github.com/samlehman617/gnome-shell-extension-filemenu

Move our extension code and metadata to the GNOME Shell Extensions directory.

mv gnome-shell-extension-filemenu/[email protected] ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions

Move this repo to somewhere in your system PATH (I use ~/Applications).

mv gnome-shell-extension-filemenu ~/Applications

• Run by launching run.sh OR configure your system to launch run.sh on startup (see below).
• Show HUD with [ALT]+[SPACE]
• Hover the top panel in gnome-shell to reveal the menu

• Always Show Menu (default: show on hover): change FORCE_SHOW_MENU in [email protected]/extension.js to true, and reload GNOME-Shell (Alt+F2, r).
• Always Show AppMenu Button: change SHOW_APPMENU_BUTTON in [email protected]/extension.js to true, and reload GNOME-Shell (Alt+F2, r).
• Fix Space Between Buttons: Some GNOME-Shell themes have a small spacing between the buttons. This can make the buttons easy to miss and unfocus our window if not maximized. To fix, add the following somewhere in your gnome-shell.css theme:

#panel #panelLeft {
  spacing: 0px; }
#panel #panelLeft .panel-button {
  spacing: 0px; }

Configure autostart to automatically run run.sh at system startup" by creating a .desktop file in your autostart directory (e.g. ~/.config/autostart/globalfilemenu.desktop) containing the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=GlobalFileMenu
Exec='[SOME APPLICATION DIRECTORY IN YOUR SYSTEM PATH]/GlobalFileMenu/run.sh'
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false

This extension can only work with programs that have exported their appmenu module. Many programs do not do this, and support for doing so will be removed in GTK-4.0. Expect fewer programs to be compatible as they migrate to GTK-4.0.

The wiki has a list of working apps

See this discussion. Please do not open an issue upstream. Either use the existing discussion or open an issue on this repo.

• [2/15/2021] - Updated README
• [2/15/2021] - Updated extension metadata, adds preliminary compatibility with GNOME 3.38 & GNOME 40 (not tested yet)

• Support GNOME 3.38
• Support GNOME 40
• Add installation script
• Add autostart entry
• Add CI builds/tests
• Add icon
• Expose customization options in Extensions preferences UI
• List on extensions.gnome.org

Forked from gonzaarcr/Fildem.