New XFCE menu -Whisker

[viking60]

XFCE is a good DE for all those who miss Gnome 2 and it has a configurable panel(s).
You can add menus to it and one new good one is Whisker menu

It has a search function and you can add apps to your favorites by simply right-clicking them and tell if you want it in the favorite section or on the desktop. It will become default in Manjaro as of version 0.8,7

This is a good one

And I will not tell you who has contributed with Valhallian translation.

I am way to modest.....

You can assign it to any key or menu button with xfce4-appfinder - It does not have to be in XFCE - it works in Openbox too...



The full version with favorites /usr/bin/xfce4-popup-whiskermenu seems to only work in XFCE though.

[viking60]

Here is a movie of the Whisker-menu in openbox

[dedanna1029]

A couple of things here. First, good show on the Valhallan translation of this.

Another, I LOVE that desktop in the video. The wallpaper is really nice!

The last being that Whisker isn't in the Mageia repos.
Think I'd get away with the Fedora installer from the site? Think I'll try it.

Edit: Ugh.

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[root@dedanna ~]# urpmi /home/dedanna/Downloads/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.0.3-1.1.i686.rpm
A requested package cannot be installed:
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.0.3-1.1.i686 (due to unsatisfied libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.18))
Continue installation anyway? (Y/n) n

Trying to see if anything in the repos provides the libstd++.
Nope, the highest there is, is 3.4.17.
Think I'll try the F18 rpm. This was with the F19 one.

Edit2: The F18 rpm worked!

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[root@dedanna ~]# urpmi /home/dedanna/Downloads/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.0.3-1.1.i686.rpm


warning: /home/dedanna/Downloads/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.0.3-1.1.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6ce33d20: NOKEY
The following package has bad signature:
/home/dedanna/Downloads/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.0.3-1.1.i686.rpm: Invalid signature (NOT OK (no key): /home/dedanna/Downloads/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.0.3-1.1.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6ce33d20: NOKEY)
Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y
installing xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.0.3-1.1.i686.rpm from /home/dedanna/Downloads
Preparing...                     ###########################################
      1/1: xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
                                 ###########################################
[root@dedanna ~]#

Thanks!

[viking60]

Good job there
I have both the Whisker menu and the classical menu side by side.

I only use Whisker tho..

I'll put the wallpaper in the Favorite wallpapers section - where you can download it.
Edit:
It is already there:
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1913

[dedanna1029]

Thank you.

You're good for those who don't have time any more to just cruise the inet for cool things, or put their own photos together for wallpapers. Someday, I'll upload everything from this summer, then you can all have a look and pick. Might as well get it over with I guess. Soon.