How to Find the Menu Bar in Ubuntu 16.04
Summary: Steps for finding the menu bar in Ubuntu 16.04.
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How to Find the Menu Bar
You may find that the "Menu Bar" which provides menus such as "file, edit, view, tools, help" and other menus is not immediately noticeable. This is due to a technique which some Linux Operating Systems (OS) use to improve the efficient use of screen real-estate.
This technique combines the title bar at the top of the window with the name of the application or document.
In order to separate the two functions in the single component of the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Various menus such as file, edit, view, tools, help, and other relevant menus fade from view revealing the contents of the title bar. To reveal the menu, mouse over the title bar and the program’s menus become visible again.
- Typical display mode of the combined title and menu bar (Figure 1 and 2, English only).
Ubuntu 16.04 Menu Bar
Figure 1
Ubuntu 16.04 Menu Items
Figure 2
- Display mode showing the menus upon mouse over to reveal the applications menus.
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Article Number: 000150845
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 10 Apr 2021
Version: 3
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