Comments on: Turn Your Ubuntu Lucid to Mac OS X

By: Sir Robby

Sir Robby — Tue, 03 May 2011 01:19:00 +0000

Alt-f4? Seriously? I sure hope you’re joking.
The rest of this works. Just open terminal manually.

By: Sir Robby

Sir Robby — Tue, 03 May 2011 01:12:00 +0000

Also to mess with your mac-obsessed boss. She’s going to freak out when she sees “mac” on an hp.

By: Sir Robby

Sir Robby — Mon, 02 May 2011 09:31:00 +0000

Silly me. I was using the old versions of this post. I recently changed version from 32 to 64 bit and then followed this tutorial and everything worked perfectly. Thanks millions for this guide. Now I can really mess with my mac-nut of a boss. :-)

By: Sir Robby

Sir Robby — Mon, 02 May 2011 01:04:00 +0000

I tried it on a hp pavillion dv7 1130us that dualboots win7 pro 64bit and ubuntu 10.04 i386 and all of the internal changes worked beautifully. However, the startup manager won’t let me change the upsplash or splash screen. I know it can be done as I did it manually about a year ago though I don’t remember how. Do you know any reason why it would do that? Or how about a workaround?

By: Mike Meeker

Mike Meeker — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:51:00 +0000

This is not easy really; i ended up losing my panel

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:03:00 +0000

The PPA stated above only worked for Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) and below. If you are using Ubuntu Maverick, it won’t work. For Ubuntu Maverick, it is better to go the website (https://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/downloads/list) and download the tar file.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:39:00 +0000

When trying to load the gnome-globalmenu the command below can’t locate the package. is the command correct?

sudo apt-get install gnome-globalmenu

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-globalmenu
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package gnome-globalmenu

By: Ray Wilson

Ray Wilson — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:04:00 +0000

It works.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:04:00 +0000

I didn’t test it on 64 bit system and i don’t have a 64 bit system to test with, so I can’t answer your question whether it will work on 64-bit Lucid or not.

By: Ray Wilson

Ray Wilson — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:25:00 +0000

I had my 32-bit Lucid setup like this. I just rebuilt my system and installed 64-bit Lucid. Would I have any problems running this with the new setup? My video card is an XFX GeForce 9400GT: PV-T94G-YAJG. It is running great with Lucid.
Thanks

By: Coolestboy Harsh

Coolestboy Harsh — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:43:00 +0000

Sorry gotta add the screenshot :P(notice the top left part.wasn’t like that b4-it used to be seamless)
/home/harsh/Desktop/Screenshot.png

By: Harsh

Harsh — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:40:00 +0000

hey i had to delete my top panel once.Since then the new panel looks weird?The global menu and some widgets are darker than the panel.tried reinstalling mac4lin mod but same thing.(thanks in advance this write up is great)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:19:00 +0000

My leak of experience – tryed, but copying in gnome/nautlius did not work. how do I “sudo-copy” a whole directory including subfolders and files?

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:41:00 +0000

You just need to duplicate the .gnome2 folder over to the other user account.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:53:00 +0000

Nice tutorial.
Anyway, does anyone have the trick to transform my complete setup to the other users on this computer?

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:54:00 +0000

If you are using Ubuntu Maverick (10.10), the above method won’t work. You can follow the instruction at this post (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-gnome2-globalmenu-from-source-for-ubuntu-10-10-maverick.html) to get it working.

By: Macintosh Macs

Macintosh Macs — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:34:00 +0000

i could not done Global Menu plz help me….it shows not effect rather i cant find global menu panel applet below main menu

By: Adilakbarali

Adilakbarali — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:47:00 +0000

the global menu aptget doesnt work anymore, i tried it and i dont have it in my add option

By: Robert Brown

Robert Brown — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:35:00 +0000

works good on Linux Mint 10 GNOME … but the taskbar still shows “Menu” in place of “Desktok” everything else is fine

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:44:00 +0000

Most of the things should work in Ubuntu 10.10. The only thing I am not sure of is the Global Menu. I have not tested it in Ubuntu 10.10 yet.