I use latest Ubuntu 11.04 which has Unity desktop. I am learning to use Emacs 23.
As you know, Unity has top panel. I want to enable global menu bar for Emacs so that I could save valuable screen space. (I use small screen laptop)
How to enable global menu bar? Your help will be much appreciated. Thank you.
appmenu-gtk (which provides the global menu bar) specifically blacklisted emacs since it does not play nicely together so unfortunately you probably can't use it with emacs.
- Use your favorite editor to open this file:
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies/libappmenu.so - Find the word "emacs"
- Change "emacs" to other word
- Save the file
sudo ldconfig
update:The file of "libappmenu.so" moved to "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies" now in ubuntu 12.04.
Cleaner way to circument the blacklist:
ln -s /usr/bin/emacs somewhere_on_PATH/emacs-with-global-menu
any name except "emacs" works.
You might need workaround for updating menus from http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/issues/detail?id=357#c8 (don't know if still relevant, or if that's the only problem):
(defun menuupdate () (menu-bar-mode -1) (menu-bar-mode 1))
(add-hook 'window-configuration-change-hook 'menuupdate)
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7497440/how-to-enable-global-menu-bar-for-emacs-on-ubuntu-unity-11-04