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As far as I understand it the source code of Firefox is hacked in order to use the unity global menu.

Zotero Standalone is based on the same architecture as Firefox (xulrunner). Would it be possible to implement the same hack for this piece of software as well? Would be great to improve the consistency of my desktop.

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wa4557
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  • It should be possible. There's a bug report for that at the zotero standalone bug track here. The global menu integration seems to be (de)activated based on the value of the ui.use_unity_menubar preference. Someone has to grep for use_unity_menubar in the firefox/xulrunner codebase for Ubuntu, and port the functionality to zotero standalone. – George Politis Sep 27 '14 at 20:12
  • Yeah I tried to look into that, and it turns out, that the patch is way to complicated for my js expertise... – wa4557 Sep 28 '14 at 19:29

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As of 2019, the preferred way of installing Zotero is by using Emiliano Heyns' packages.

His repository also provides alternative packages with unofficial Global Menu support for Ubuntu 19.04+.

For additional information about the provided packages, see the README file.

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