Introduction

After tinkering with it for a while now I finally have got a very much functional global menu working on my Xfce4 desktop running on Debian 10. I will list down the steps I followed to get the global menu configured on my Debian Xfce box in this post.

Global menu vs Local menu

For those of you who might be wondering what a global menu is, it is a way of displaying the application menus on the top of the screen like the way MacOS does. By default the Xfce4 desktop displays the menus right below the Window title bar separately in each Window.

Have you ever faced a situation where you are using an IDE like Eclipse that uses a lot of Control + some other key combination shortcuts to do various tasks and you are pretty much used to those shortcuts but those shortcuts do not work under Xfce? Well I like Xubuntu because of the lightweight Xfce desktop environment but being primarily a Java developer, I also use Eclipse IDE a lot and not being able to use the keyboard shortcuts that I am very much used to was a pain. Not anymore. After spending some time looking up on the internet, I found the solution. Here it goes.