How do you uninstall appmenu-qt?

[Dzhoe]

Yes, like a compulsive fool, I copied and pasted a sudo command to install appmenu-qt. It takes the menu bar from your apps--like Firefox--the File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools and Help menu items and puts them into a hidden drop down panel at the top center of your screen. I'm used to having the controls inside my app windows, and it's a bit much for me to have to mouse up to the top of the screen when I have a number of apps running simultaneously.

Anybody know how to remove this annoyance? There has to be a simple sudo command to undo it.


Dzhoe

[Rog131]

sudo apt-get purge appmenu-qt

At here (simulation):

:~$ sudo apt-get purge -s appmenu-qt
[sudo] password for ...:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
appmenu-qt* plasma-widget-menubar*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

man apt-get:

remove
remove is identical to install except that packages are removed instead of installed. Note the
removing a package leaves its configuration files in system. If a plus sign is appended to the
package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be installed instead of
removed.

purge
purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed and purged (any configuration files
are deleted too).

[Dzhoe]

Thank you Rog131. I did the remove command, but it had no effect on my Firefox browser. The disembodied Firefox menu persistently showed up, hidden on the top center of my plasma desktop. It only showed up with Firefox running. I finally got a tip on how to get rid of it. Apparently appmenu-qt gets Firefox to install a 'global-menu' extension, and that extension persists in Firefox after appmenu-qt is removed. So, I went into Firefox Tools, selected Add-Ons, and then Extensions, and there it was--Firefox Global-Menu. I disabled it and that got rid of the disembodied Firefox nenu. Also, no more appmenu-qt on my Kubuntu. I always learn by creating problems for myself--but how else do people learn?


Dzhoe

[Dzhoe]

There also seems to be some persistence of the global menu in Thunderbird Mail. That can be fixed in the same way as Firefox. In TBird Mail, go into Tools, Add-Ons, then Extensions and disable Global Menu.

If I find any more instances of persistence of this appmenu-qt after removal, I'll post them here.

Dzhoe

[zozo34]

Do you remove appmenu-gtk and appmenu-gtk3 too ?