Fedora dependencies?

[otaviomad]

I'm currently running fedora 33. Are there any chances someone already found out the dependencies?

[gonzaarcr]

I couldn’t make it work on Fedora. I’ll let you know of any advances.

[otaviomad]

yep. on the official repositories I could only find the appmenu module for qt. apparently there's this: https://pkgs.org/download/appmenu-gtk3 however I dislike the idea of downloading random binaries without proper repos.

[gonzaarcr]

I did find some stuff on the repos, like unity-gtk-module and appmenu-gtk-module but couldn’t get it to work. Also, didn’t find another similar app that uses these to test.

[lfom]

Fildem probably does not work with Fedora because its default session uses Wayland. If you use XOrg instead, it should work like any other distro, provided you install the requirements, of course. It would be great to make it work in Wayland tho, at least with Qt and apps running on Xwayland, like latest KDE does. I am pretty sure its plasmoid uses the same backends.

[gonzaarcr]

This app works on Wayland. I can’t say it’s the best experience because Wayland doesn’t like floating windows and global communication, but it should at least detect some Qt menus.

[lfom]

@gonzaarcr Indeed it works! Amazing! I was searching for something like this for months! I even thought about moving to KDE, now that GTK integration is much better, but it still does not look clean enough to my taste.

On Pop!_OS 20.04 (Gnome 3.36) it didn't need unity-gtk-module-common, and adding appmenu-gtk-module to GTK_MODULES environment variable seems to be enough (I had it already set up because I did some tests with Vala panel in the past).

The HUD shortcut (Alt + space) does not work on Wayland. The only other thing that didn't work as it should was Chromium, even on XOrg: maybe it is the version I use (Ungoogled-Chromium non-portable for Debian), I will try another version later. Do you have any tips?

[lfom]

Updates:

1. HUD works on Wayland if there is no default shortcut combo pre-configured (Alt + space was set to show the window menu: maximize, minimize, etc)
2. I used Feren OS (like Ubuntu 20.04 but with latest KDE) and the same Ungoogled Chromium version that I tested on Pop!_OS worked fine with the Global Menu on KDE
3. KDE in FerenOS does not use bamfdaemon, what surprises me. It seems that they use pure dbusmenu/appmenu libs.

[gonzaarcr]

1. The shortcut works out of the box? I created inithud.sh for Wayland since you cannot create shorcuts, but I forgot to document it.

[lfom]

No, my bad. Probably it worked on XOrg when I was testing. It does not work on Wayland, even with no default shortcut assigned to Alt + space. I wonder why the menus are not showing for Chromium, do you have any ideas?

[gonzaarcr]

I just tested on Zorin and it worked. Make sure you are not using the AppImage version. If you keep having troubles create an isssue.

[lestcape]

@lfom unity-gtk-module have not support for wayland and appmenu-gtk-module have support, but that was added by me. In Fedora, the package unity-gtk-module was introduced by a maintainer of the Cinnamon desktop in Fedora, when i created a global menu for the Cinnamon desktop, but I discontinued the Cinnamon extension and then not one care about update his dependencies (i.e use appmenu-gtk-module). The version of unity-gtk-module that Fedora have is also a very old version.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/d3t5gp/kde_global_menu_for_gtk_fedora_30/

For more info about the support of appmenu-gtk-module you can see this: https://repology.org/project/appmenu-gtk-module/versions

[classilla]

FWIW, on Fedora 34 with Xorg and GNOME 40, https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/02/how-to-install-fildem-global-menu-and.html was pretty much as written.

[rbreaves]

Anyone try on 36 though? It seems broken to me.