Speed Up Ubuntu Menus

Click "Places", "Home Folder" and a window that looks like this will open...

Now, we need to create a file called .gtkrc-2.0. To do this we right-click on any white space and move our mouse over "Create Document" and click "Empty File". We now rename this file to .gtkrc-2.0. When you do that your window should now look like this...

We will now double-click the ".gtkrc-2.0" file you just created and this window will open....

Copy & paste this text into the window like seen in the above screenshot:

Click "Save" and close the window. You will need to log out and back in to see the results.

If you feel your Ubuntu menus open too fast now and would like to make them slower, we find this to be the best speed:

However, for you to be able to edit ".gtkrc-2.0" again we need to tell Ubuntu to show hidden files. The finished result on how to do this task would look like this:

Here are the steps on how to do this task:

1. Go back to your "Home Folder"
2. Click "View" and a menu expands. In this menu you will find something called "Show Hidden Files", click it.

You will now be seeing a whole bunch of files you have never seen before. Find the file called ".gtkrc-2.0", open it and delete gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0, replace it with gtk-menu-popup-delay = 100.

If for whatever reason you do not like this tweak, it is safe to delete the file called ".gtkrc-2.0" and all will be back to normal.