CinnVIIStarkMenu

NikoKrause

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Cinnamon Menu with the look of the Windows 7 Start Menu or the MATE Menu

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CinnVIIStarkMenu

Compatibility:

Tested	❌	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Cinnamon-Version	4.6	4.4	4.2	4.0	3.8	3.6	3.4	3.2	3.0	2.8	2.6
Linux Mint-Version	20	19.3	19.2	19.1	19	18.3	18.2	18.1	18	17.3	17.2

Preview:

Click on the image below to see a review video of CinnVIIStarkMenu (previous: CinnXPStarkMenu) by Big Daddy:

Published on Nov 11, 2016

Mentions:

Rocco (aka. Big Daddy) gave some air time (22:22--24:01) to CinnVIIStarkMenu on the Destination Linux Podcast.	CinnVIIStarkMenu is mentioned at the end of the Article Linux – Desktop Environment Hopping by MorningStarGG on Think Critic

Published on May 15, 2017	Published on September 17, 2017

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License

CinnVIIStarkMenu is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for details.

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Chinese (Simplified) (zh_CN)	giwhub
Croatian (hr)	gogo
Czech (cs)	Radek Otáhal
French (fr)	bluedxca93, Christian Medel
German (de)	Niko Krause
Kurdish (ku)	Rokar ✌
Portuguese (pt)	Hugo Meireles Gonçalves
Russian (ru)	Niko Krause, Pavel Ivanov
Serbian (sr)	Мирослав Николић
Spanish (es)	Bob, Germán
Swedish (sv)	Åke Engelbrektson

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65 Comments

Ryan Festag-1 month ago

Just tested 1.23 in Cinnamon 4.6.2, and it is working great. Whatever version I had installed before my latest Cinnamon upgrade was crashing, but this works as expected.

ivanaponi-1 month ago

Given the alternatives, this is the best we got

Mpc46-1 month ago

Easy to use, highly customizable and really good looking, I love it! You did a great job, thanks for sharing it with us!

NikoKrause-5 months ago

I've updated the applet to version 1.19. Hope it works better now.

Stephen Sepan-5 months ago

Thanks!

flansuse-5 months ago

Why isn't this page being updated? Why is the built-in applets manager still stuck with an very outdated and incompatible version? There is constant development and updates on the GitHub project, yet the maintainer makes no updates or announcements on here anymore. Yes, I know you can manually download the tarball from the project page and change a few lines with a text editor on a specific .json file, but that should never be expected of a desktop user. Applet updates should be seamless and integrated.

ak1dd-5 months ago

Thanks for this... really love it. A couple questions - is there a way to change the Quit menu icons? They don't match my theme and I think it would be slick to look more like symbolic icons. Second, is there a way to have the view always default to "All Programs"? I don't really use favorites as they are on my panel. Finally, how about a way to reduce the amount of white space? For example there is a lot of empty space between menu items and a big empty space to the right of the search box. Thanks again.

Stephen Sepan-6 months ago

Sorry wrong link -- that was MY fork; the original location is... https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/blob/master/CinnVIIStarkMenu@NikoKrause/files/CinnVIIStarkMenu@NikoKrause/metadata.json ...but the point is the same. The download link (and I should clarify that I mean the one HERE on Cinnamon Spices) is older.

Stephen Sepan-6 months ago

As you can see here... https://github.com/ssepan2/cinnamon-spices-applets/blob/master/CinnVIIStarkMenu@NikoKrause/files/CinnVIIStarkMenu@NikoKrause/metadata.json ... @kavalanche added the fix 2 days ago. However, it's not in the download link yet.

Stephen Sepan-6 months ago

I'll also echo @bassistguy's comment about the Download link -- I pulled the version in that link before doing my edit and found that although the .json file did have 4.2, it did NOT have 4.4.

Stephen Sepan-6 months ago

I've just upgraded to Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3 Tricia (Cinnamon v4.4.5). Although the upgrade warned about the applet and no longer loaded it, following the advice by @bassistguy below, by downloading the latest, copying to the folder indicated, and adding "4.4" to the cinnamon-version line, as in ... "cinnamon-version": ["2.6","2.8","3.0","3.2","3.4","3.6","3.8","4.0","4.2","4.4"] ...allows the menu to load in Mint 19.3.

fgovoni-6 months ago

It worked

Aliaksei Labotski-9 months ago

Why it don't work with Mint 19.2??? So much time has passed

Derek-is-Eric-10 months ago

I've installed Linux Mint 19.2 MATE and try to install this including the workaround, but i cant choose this "applet"... Is it possible to use this applet in Linux Mint 19.2 MATE? I've used this Menu in Linux Mint 18.2 MATE and it works fine but i don't remember how i have it installed. Is there a difference between Cinnamon and MATE?

bassistguy-10 months ago

PLEASE NOTE: Before you try the workaround I posted, if you already attempted to download this menu via the "Add applet to panel" dialog, make sure to REMOVE it from the "Manage" tab first before attempting my workaround!! Just highlight CinnVIIStarkMenu and choose X at the bottom. Then start on the workaround below.

bassistguy-10 months ago

*Workaround for Mint 19.2, Cinnamon 4.2.x* It looks like NikoKrause already updated this menu for Cinnamon 4.2.x, but didn't point the Download link on this page to the update. To use this with Mint 19.2, do the following: 1. Download the applet (Orange Download link at the top of this page) 2. Extract the ZIP file and move the extracted directory to ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets 3. Edit the metadata.json file with a text editor 4. REPLACE the last line with the following and save the file: "cinnamon-version": ["2.6","2.8","3.0","3.2","3.4","3.6","3.8","4.0","4.2"] 5. Right-click on your panel and choose "Add applets to the panel" 6. You should now see the new, updated "CinnVIIStarkMenu" as an option 7. Choose it, and enjoy the best Cinnamon menu available :)

flansuse-10 months ago

Thank you, bassistguy! This worked for me and I am a very happy Cinnamon user once more! Cannot thank you enough!

jimthedj65-10 months ago

My 19.2 upgraded looking glass reports error t=2019-08-12T12:54:54Z [CinnVIIStarkMenu@NikoKrause]: Extension is not compatible with current Cinnamon version

Bendeguz1974-10 months ago

Hi Niko. Please update the StarkMenu application! This the best menu! I really like this and I'm wery sad, because not work in Linux Mint 19.2 :-(

flansuse-11 months ago

This is the best menu for any desktop, any distro, and operating system, Windows, Mac, or Linux. Nothing else comes close. An update for Cinnamon 4.2.3 (Linux Mint 19.2, Manjaro, and others) is super important, and we are ever so grateful! Thank you for your amazing efforts and applet!

jimthedj65-10 months ago

totally agree it should be part of the distribution.

magellan-13016-11 months ago

Please update for Cinnamon 4.2.3 installed with Linux Mint 19.2 ! I only like this menu for linux !

jimthedj65-11 months ago

would love this to support 19.2

salvamea-11 months ago

Please update it its the best menu for cinnamon....

bassistguy-11 months ago

I'm assuming there will be an update for Linux Mint 19.2 (Cinnamon)? When I attempt to install this menu, there is a message stating it's not compatible.

Saul Fautley-11 months ago

Best menu ever, love it. But is there any way to make it reset to show Favorites each time it opens rather than showing the previous view? Would be great if this could be configured.

LinuxOnTheDesktop-1 year ago

Sorry to be a pain, but there's just now been a Cinnamon update - on the Mint alpha channel, anyway (see https://github.com/linuxmint/alpha-testing) - and Cinnamon now reports the applet as incompatible. $ cinnamon --version Cinnamon 4.2.0

Paulikid-1 year ago

same here on Arch Linux with Cinnamon DE. I added "4.2" in the "metadata.json" of StarkMenu, so the applet starts again after restarting Cinnamon, but the left side of the menu is empty, no applications, no favorites.

alien1618-1 year ago

Hi there, I want to say that I use Cinnamon primarily for the StarkMenu which is in my opinion the best applications menu available as compared with anyone in any desktop environment. It is so great that I think it should be available by default in Cinnamon. Thank you so very much for the great work you have done and please keep up the wonderful work.

FcoDanielRM-1 year ago

I have a problem, when I try to assign a new direct access in applications, and I will open the panel for the order, application name, and the icon, when I click on the icon I can not choose an icon and it is blocked, I have to kill the process since I can not cancel. Thank you for your help and this is incredible!

NikoKrause-1 year ago

Hey, this is a known issue in Cinnamon 4.0 (Linux Mint 19.1) itself and not specific to this applet: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/issues/2155 It will be solved in Cinnamon 4.2 (Linux Mint 19.2).

naaiil-1 year ago

Awesome cinnamon menu. But is that possible bring back the menu to favorite app after search app. Because after search app, the menu cannot back to favorite menu, still on all program menu. Thanks

Neverest-1 year ago

Used this when moving my family's laptop to Mint. No problems so far. :) Any hope for a Mate applet of the menu? Would love to use it on a lighter desktop environment.

GNU_Linux_User-1 year ago

I like this applet so much that I use it twice - on two panels! It's a shame that once I've configured one I have to configure the other (as against there being some way of copying the configuration). Also, I find that typing into the button for the 'quit' text is extremely slow - on a very fast laptop. It takes more than five seconds for some of the letters to show up.

Ben-1 year ago

My favorite Cinnamon menu by far. Great work! Thanks.

Hugo Meireles Gonçalves-1 year ago

Now working with Cinnamon 4.0! Thank you a lot.

eyzer24-1 year ago

The update for CinnVIIStarkMenu it's ok for me(Manjaro cinnamon4). Thanks ;)

eyzer24-1 year ago

HI, i like it but don't work with cinnamon 4

NikoKrause-1 year ago

Added support for Cinnamon 4.0

Michel Casillas-1 year ago

What a beautifil thing.

Frank-2 years ago

Clicking on "configure" does nothing. Version 1.1.7 Debian Sid

Adeel Akram-2 years ago

The following Message appears if Mouse is clicked/kept on extreme lower left corner near @ Menu of CinnVIIStarkMenu (I am using "Hot Corners" Applet to Run a Command on lower left corner): Execution of " failed: Text was empty (or contained whitespace) This message should not be triggered if there is nothing to execute in the "Hot Corners" settings... Similarly anything that has spaces in parameters should be handled without triggering this message. All else is working perfectly... Keep up the good work !!! I am using version 2017-11-16

oxydium-2 years ago

I find that an option is missing to enable or disable tooltips in programs navigation. with this extra option, the applet would be perfect :)

Band1to-2 years ago

Awesome !

Григорий Столяр-2 years ago

Great applet. Thanks.

Craig Lillie-2 years ago

Can't wait for the 3.6 version. Just got upgraded from 3.4.2 to 3.6.0 and sadly it doesn't work now.

NikoKrause-2 years ago

I have updated CinnVIIStarkMenu for Cinnamon 3.6. You just need to update the applet now.

James Upson-2 years ago

Hi Craig, it's working for me on 3.6.1, after a bit of jiggery pokery.

Bertrand Pivaty-2 years ago

This is a great applet. I however have one suggestion: it would be nice that if one select All Programs, whether you start an app or close the menu, re-opening the menu should be back with favorites. Or maybe at least make it configurable.

NikoKrause-2 years ago

The MATE-Menu Layout of this applet has this behaviour.

Bertrand Pivaty-2 years ago

I tried both Mate and Stark menu none of them gave me this behavior.

NikoKrause-2 years ago

MATE-Layout: Remembers which section (»All Programs« or »Favorites«) was open and shows this section next time you're opening the menu. Stark-Layout: Always shows the »Favorites« section on menu opening. If that's not the case please file a new issue on the following page: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/issues

Bertrand Pivaty-2 years ago

It works well as you said with Stark layout. Don't know why it did not work before. Nice applet. I like it.

CottonEaster-2 years ago

This fine applet seems to be having problems on my Mint 18.2 Cinnamon system. For details, please see the bug report here: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/6739#issuecomment-31871833

GNU_Linux_User-1 year ago

The applet is working well on Mint 19.1 and indeed better than the official Mint menu applet. Kudos to the developer of CinnVII!

Henkel256-3 years ago

Work with Mint 17.1, very good. Thanks.

ACinnamonUserInUK-3 years ago

Very nice. Polished. Good work. Thank you.

kreha1-3 years ago

Thank you for this menu. Do you plan on adding win10-like menu layout? Would love that applet even more. Thanks again :).

NikoKrause-3 years ago

No it hasn't. If you are looking for a menu applet with fuzzy search, try the Sane Menu by nooulaif: https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/258

Zerophase-3 years ago

Does this have fuzzy search?

Reaw-3 years ago

To solve the 'Super-R' issue opening the wrong menu, you have to restart Cinnamon ! (Alt+f2 then type r and enter).

Reaw-3 years ago

I like this menu a lot, but when I press the the 'Super-R' button, it still opens the default menu and not this one, even if the default menu applet isn't activated. Any idea on how to solve this ?

Steve Murphy-3 years ago

A lot to like with this menu, but for me there are a couple of deal breakers that stop it being my first choice of alternative to the stock menu. I don't like that the menu doesn't maintain a consistent width moving through program categories and it suffers some issues with brief text corruption scrolling trough program categories on my system. Stock menu does the same, but there are other choices on Spices that don't.

NikoKrause-3 years ago

"The menu doesn't maintain a consistent width moving through program categories..." That was a bug. The menu should has constant width now. "... and it suffers some issues with brief text corruption scrolling trough program categories on my system." I'm not sure, what you mean by "brief text corruption". But scrolling through categories has been improved as well.

Steve Murphy-2 years ago

Hi NikoKrause. The text corruption issues seem to be cured with Mint 18.2/Cinnamon 3.4 and the menu width is all good now. Have been using this for a few weeks now as my default. All good. Thank-you.