In the settings of CinnVIIStarkMenu there's a »panel« tab at the top. Activate the switch »Use a custom icon and label«.

I found what I needed to change and set the height of the menu to my desired height. For anyone else interested due to the menu being too short for your preference. Steps I took: 1. Open Terminal cd to "~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/CinnVIIStarkMenu@NikoKrause/4.2" 2. "sudo gedit applet.js" (or replace gedit with your preferred text editor) 3. Locate/search for Line #2099 or text this.applicationsScrollBox.set_height(scrollBoxHeight); 4. Changes made "+ 200" for menu scroll box height was my desired height, You can change it to your desired height: this.applicationsScrollBox.set_height(scrollBoxHeight + 200); 5. Same steps above for Line "#2100" this.categoriesScrollBox.set_height(scrollBoxHeight); 6. Change to your preferred height his.categoriesScrollBox.set_height(scrollBoxHeight + 200); 7. Save and exit. Restart Cinnamon This was the easiest way I could find to get my desired height. It would be nice if their was settings within the Configuration to adjust the width/height to our desired usable size. Prior to this the menu was only showing a menu approximately half the height of what I set it manually.

do you found a way to do this?

You find the changelog by clicking on the commit hash at the top of this site, i.e. the link in the square brackets after "Last commit".

Hey, you're thinking too complicated. There's a switch called "Show quit buttons" in the settings.

Update: after some discussion with the theme dev, this is where he got it. https://imgur.com/e9lVFV8.png

Hey, thanks for your feedback. I just backported the new search from Cinnamons menu, which is a lot better compared to the previous search, and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm not sure, which built-in calculator is used in Cinnamenu, but I'll take a look. You can enable search providers for CinnVIIStarkMenu to have a built-in calculator. I'll add some instructions later, how to enable that. Making settings collapsible doesn't change much codebase wise. By the way, the Cinnamenu is back. So nothing to miss there anymore :)

Thanks!

It worked

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

totally agree it should be part of the distribution.

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.

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).

Added support for Cinnamon 4.0

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

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

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

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

"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.