Accessing main menu

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I removed my main menu from the Applications menu and want to access it. How can I do this through the command line? I'm using Ubuntu 10.10.

Few clarifications: Are you talking about the Applications menu? Do you want to add it back onto the Panel? (the bar on the top) — Stefano Palazzo, Feb 01 '11 at 13:05
If you want to run the apps you find in the Applications menu from the command line, then this question is probably a duplicate of [Is there a way to determine how to launch any program from the command line](http://askubuntu.com/questions/23272/is-there-a-way-to-determine-how-to-launch-any-program-from-the-command-line/23283#23283) — Stefano Palazzo, Feb 01 '11 at 13:06
http://askubuntu.com/questions/116655/what-is-the-command-to-run-system-settings-from-a-terminal — isomorphismes, Feb 19 '17 at 18:30

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 01 '11 at 13:34

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There's a keyboard shortcut for accessing the main menu, there's no need to use the command line. Just press Alt+F1.

edited Feb 01 '11 at 13:34

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I suppose this do not work if the menu has been removed from the panel. – enzotib Feb 01 '11 at 13:13
It does — I always remove mine from the panel and start it this way. – goncalossilva Feb 01 '11 at 13:17
Yup it does work, i just tried. – binW Feb 01 '11 at 14:06
Doesn't work for example if you use certain other window managers that don’t start whatever `gnome` app runs the main menu. – isomorphismes Feb 19 '17 at 18:27

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 01 '11 at 14:24

as @goncalossilva said if you remove Main Menu from panel you can still view it by pressing ALT+F1. Alternatively you can install gnome-main-menu package using:

sudo apt-get install gnome-main-menu

and then run it from command line or Alt+F2 using following command:

/usr/lib/gnome-main-menu/application-browser

If you however want to add Main Menu back to panel just right click on the panel and select Add to panel... then in the window that appears select Menu Bar or Main Menu (which ever you like) and click Add button and then click Close and you are done.

Accessing main menu

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