V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 As any of you who run Xfce know, their menu leaves a lot to be desired. There's a solution out there these days called "Whisker Menu". It's an addon that creates a much more traditional type menu along with some conveniences and other perks. I was bored last night and installed it on my Slack/Xfce system. I LIKE it! Check it out... https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin also on the original creator's site: https://gottcode.org/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/ If you're running Slackware w/ Xfce4, you can d-load an already compiled SlackBuild for this from Robbie Workman's repos --> https://rlworkman.net/pkgs/ or compile it yourself from SlackBuilds.org --> https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/desktop/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/ Screenshots: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin#screenshots Mine looks a bit different because it's highly customizable... and I LIKE to customize. Have fun! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Whisker menu is default on MX. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon James Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 a lot of LXDE users install xfce panels to replace lxpanels, simply to have access to the Whisker Menu. I'm still a native OpenBox/Fluxbox/PekWM right click desktop menu guy, but looking into jgmenu. If I can figure out how to implement the Fluxbox & PekWM "settings" within jgmenu, I'll make the switch. Until then, it's a 4th option for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I actually prefer the ol' Xfce applications menu over the Whisker menu. I do tweak it a bit, and I set things up so that I can also bring it up with a right-click on the desktop. But, I don't like that it doesn't come with a nice menu editor. Years back, didn't Xfce have a good menu editor? That could be my memory playing tricks on me, but I seem to recall being very disappointed when they dropped it. I see here that LXMenuEditor should work with the Xfce applications menu; haven't tried that yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 Meh... I don't usually edit my Xfce4 menus, but when I do (sounds like those silly memes I see all over the Internet), I do it manually. Some info --> https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu Silly meme: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 (edited) Yeah. I've gotten spoiled by obmenu, the Openbox GUI menu editor. And, I don't think Fluxbox has a GUI menu editor, but editing the Fluxbox menu is kinda painless as the text files are easy to work with. With both Openbox and Fluxbox, I save my config files, then I reuse them (tweaked a bit) for new installations. With Xfce, I make only a few changes to the menu these days. I think my notes from what I did with a Buster installation last year explain it best: Editing the Xfce menu in Buster... To remove the File Manager, Terminal Emulator, Mail Reader, and Web Browser entries from the root menu, I copied the exo-file-manager.desktop, exo-terminal-emulator.desktop, exo-mail-reader.desktop, and exo-web-browser.desktop files from /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications, then edited each file by removing the Category X-Xfce-Toplevel. To remove Thunar options from right-click menu, issue the following command: $ xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -v --create -p /desktop-icons/style -t int -s 0 To toggle back and forth between the properties: $ xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -v -p /desktop-icons/style -s 0 or $ xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -v -p /desktop-icons/style -s 2 Edited January 23, 2020 by saturnian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 My Xfce applications menu, which now also opens with a desktop right-click: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I booted into a live session of MX Linux to play around with the Whisker menu. Hadn't noticed this before, or else I forgot, but I see the MX Menu Editor. Nice! From what I'm seeing, their menu editor doesn't allow for editing or re-arranging the categories in the menu, but maybe I'm just not seeing how that's done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 FWIW, I just discovered OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 is using Whisker Menu by default in xfce. Actually, I only found it when rearranging items on the panel and saw Whisker Menu as the first item. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 I'm enjoying my Whisker Menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 On 1/30/2020 at 11:53 PM, V.T. Eric Layton said: I'm enjoying my Whisker Menu. I enjoy whiskey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 Yessssss... I'm with you there. I enjoyed some of it yesterday evening, actually. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 +1 Sorry, I had to as it's early and I read Whisker as Whiskey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 Heh! Yeah, it's definitely early. The ol' lady came over last night and we partook a bit (she's a wino, though). I was up before the birds this AM (0630) to help get her up and off to work. She does in-home elderly healthcare. It's really dark gray, wet and ugly here this AM, too. Blech! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 It's nice here, just a bit cooler than I would like. Now back to whisker, Whisker is a really cool menu that is very customizeable. I have seen some pretty cool setups over the years with it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 Yeah, when I first upgrade the ol' Slack a few weeks back, the newer Xfce came with it. I had heard about Whisker before that, but never bothered to install it. With the upgrade, I figured I'd give it a shot and see what on the online hoopla was about. I'm glad I did it. The standard Xfce menu leaves a LOT to be desired. Whisker is pretty cool, though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 D@mn! My geek is showing; Xfce Terminal top of the Favorites list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Nice Eric 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mauser Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 It's because of the Whisker menu that I Like Xfce the most and is why I don't use KDE Plasma. None of the KDE Plasma application menu's appeal to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Quote None of the KDE Plasma application menu's appeal to me. Agreed. Also, I have older hardware and xfce is a lot easier on resources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mauser Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Just now, ebrke said: Agreed. Also, I have older hardware and xfce is a lot easier on resources. Actually KDE Plasma corrected that issue and uses about the same amount of RAM as Xfce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Interesting. Haven't tried KDE in a long time. Think I'll stick with xfce, however. Been using it for some years now, and I don't usually change anything unless something breaks. I get some ribbing here because I'm probably the only member who has never installed more than one distro. I liked SuSE from the beginning, and it seemed to like me and my hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mauser Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 4 minutes ago, ebrke said: Interesting. Haven't tried KDE in a long time. Think I'll stick with xfce, however. Been using it for some years now, and I don't usually change anything unless something breaks. I get some ribbing here because I'm probably the only member who has never installed more than one distro. I liked SuSE from the beginning, and it seemed to like me and my hardware. You mean openSuSE or SuSE? The reason why I asked is because started with openSuSE KDE and then Xfce which didn't render correctly in Zyper. That's why I went trying other distros and ended up with MX Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Now it's OpenSUSE. I did use the Enterprise software years ago for a while; I was self-employed and it was a business expense, and I figured I could support them by buying the product. Are we talking about Zypper, the software package manager? I started using the software install/update functions in YaST before Zypper was part of SUSE, and I just stuck with it. While the CLI is fine, YaST is an great tool, and I'm old and lazy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mauser Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 1 minute ago, ebrke said: Now it's OpenSUSE. I did use the Enterprise software years ago for a while; I was self-employed and it was a business expense, and I figured I could support them by buying the product. Are we talking about Zypper, the software package manager? I started using the software install/update functions in YaST before Zypper was part of SUSE, and I just stuck with it. While the CLI is fine, YaST is an great tool, and I'm old and lazy! O.K. Yes, I mean Zypper. If I remember correctly I was using OpenSUSE 13.2 back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 There seem to have been some issues with Zypper over the years. As I said, I stayed with YaST, which will also bring any dependency problems/solutions to your attention before installing the software you've chosen. Like I said, I'm lazy--if I were stuck at Level 3, I probably wouldn't be worrying about installing software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mauser Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 4 minutes ago, ebrke said: There seem to have been some issues with Zypper over the years. As I said, I stayed with YaST, which will also bring any dependency problems/solutions to your attention before installing the software you've chosen. Like I said, I'm lazy--if I were stuck at Level 3, I probably wouldn't be worrying about installing software. I was using it through YaST. I am command line illiterate by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 As far as I know, Zypper is accessed through CLI. The software functions in YaST (graphical) are separate and use different repositories, although YaST also uses libzypp according to documentation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon James Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 On 1/23/2020 at 3:51 AM, saturnian said: My Xfce applications menu, which now also opens with a desktop right-click: And just HOW did we accomplish that? If XFCE adds window tabbing (like Kwin USED to!), it could be another option for Wayland when X gets overtaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mauser Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 9 minutes ago, Hedon James said: And just HOW did we accomplish that? If XFCE adds window tabbing (like Kwin USED to!), it could be another option for Wayland when X gets overtaken. In my experience Xfce always opened the applications menu by right clicking on every distro I have tried in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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