It's easy to disable the global menu bar (though I haven't tried it myself, so caveat emptor). E.g. see http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-ins

It's easy to disable the global menu bar (though I haven't tried it myself, so caveat emptor). E.g. see http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-install... sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt Had to disable it for Firefox the other day, and it's really annoying to have to go back to a window-hosted menu bar. I guess I really ought to get a mac.