Hi :) I think if you get LibreOffice from the http://www.libreoffice.org website and then install it without the desktop integration packages then it forces LibreOffice to use it's own style. I'm not sure if it's possible to remove desktop integration from the LibreOffice installed by default with Ubuntu as i have not tried it. I suspect it might take out more than you want taken out
You do get used to the Apple way of doing things but it is a Pita at the start. Also you can use keyboard short-cuts and the keyboard arrows to navigate those menus without moving the mouse arrow. For example try Alt F to open the File menu for Edit it's Alt E the unpredictable one is the "Format" menu which needs Alt o You can see the underlinings at the beginning of the name of the menu. Power users can get used to it but it helps to get "Ubuntu Tweaks" and "Unity Tweaks". I keep losing track of Unity Tweaks but here's how to add the other sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak On the other hand you might find it better to install Cinnamon or something to get one of the forks of Gnome instead of sticking with Unity. New people seem to really like Unity though. Regards from Tom :) ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 12:24 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to turn off the global menu > > On 05/07/2013 06:48 AM, William Drago wrote: >> All, >> >> I am using LO 4.0.2.2 in Ubuntu with the Unity desktop. I want to turn >> off the very annoying global menu and put the menu back where it >> belongs. In Firefox there's a very convenient setting to enable or >> disable global menu integration. Is there anything like that in LO? >> >> BTW, I don't want to get too far off topic, but can someone explain to >> me why putting the menu way off on the top of the screen is better >> than keeping it close to the application? Am I not using it correctly? >> >> Thanks, >> -Bill >> > > I wonder if the developers added that option. > > The "top of the screen menus" is a Unity feature and the developers > made > sure that LO was compliant with Unity's menu formatting. I do not like > that, or Unity's menu and desktop design, so I use Ubuntu 12.04 and > 13.04 with MATE as the desktop environment. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
