This project is a fork of gnomehud with the addition of a global menu bar. It consists of a Gnome Shell extension and an external program, you must install both for the application to work.
You can also bring a HUD menu with Alt + Space (on Xorg).
This is a prototype, as I don’t know if people will like it or how long it will last until devs nuke it, so feel free to let me know your opinion.
To install the extension, download it from the Gnome extensions website.
Download the .deb file from the releases section and run sudo apt install ./fildem_*.deb
Download the .zst file from the releases section and run sudo pacman -U ./python3-fildem*.zst
In order for the application to work, you must configure the following files (applies to all operating systems):
- Create the file
~/.gtkrc-2.0and appendgtk-modules="appmenu-gtk-module" - The file
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.inishould have the linegtk-modules="appmenu-gtk-module"under [Settings]. If it doesn’t exist create it and paste the following
[Settings]
gtk-modules="appmenu-gtk-module"
After installation you’ll have two executables, fildem and fildem-hud. To check if it works use the first one. fildem-hud is for using the HUD, if you are on Xorg, you already have it bound to Alt + Space. If you are on Wayland, you can bind some keybinding to that command.
By default, the menu is visible when you hover the mouse on the panel. If you want the menu to be always visible, unselect “Show menu only when the mouse is over the panel” in the preferences of the extension.
The AppMenu button shows the application name or window title (if you have some extension) in the panel. By default, the fildem extension hides that label when the menu is being shown. If you want it to be always visible, you can unselect “Hide App Menu label” in the preferences of the extension.
If the menu shown on the panel is shifted with relation to the one that appears, like this:
you can tweak the "Button padding" in the preferences window of the extension (accessible from the tweak tool).
In some gnome themes, the buttons have a small spacing between them. This can make the buttons easy to miss and unfocusing our window if it’s not maximized. To fix this, add this somewhere on your gnome-shell.css theme:
#panel #panelLeft {
spacing: 0px; }
#panel #panelLeft .panel-button {
spacing: 0px; }
If you manage to make the program work and want to have it running automatically at startup you can add an entry to gnome-session-properties with the name of the program and the path to execute it.
Since it’s not possible to create a shortcut from the app on Wayland, you have to create it yourself. Go to Settings → Keyboard Shorcuts and create a shortcut that executes inithud.sh.
To see a list of apps that work check the wiki
If you have any questions on how to get it to work, please don’t create an issue, use this discussion.