CinnVIIStarkMenu

by NikoKrause

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UUID: CinnVIIStarkMenu@NikoKrause

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1 month ago 2023-02-14, 02:54

Last commit: [d274c2e4] Add some Simplified Chinese translations (#4679)

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

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CinnVIIStarkMenu

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Tested	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Cinnamon-Version	5.0	4.8	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	20.2	20.1	20	19.3	19.2	19.1	19	18.3	18.2	18.1	18	17.3	17.2

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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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Language	By
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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sobmicha-2 weeks ago

I'm sorry, but I can't make the font as large in your applet as in the whole system. On the screenshot, you can see how they differ: https://i.imgur.com/7TYPg9g.png

sobmicha-2 weeks ago

The effect is caused by the theme. Sorry for taking up your time.

Juan-Lutz-1 month ago

Dear Niko ! Thank you for the update. Now it works like a charm. I like this Menu, Great Job.

Juan-Lutz-1 month ago

Correction the white shape flickers on the menu when I move the mouse over the apps menu.... sad but the misbehavior is still present in Cinnamon 5.6.7

OrthodoxBG-1 month ago

I have been using Linux Mint with MATE desktop since 2015, when I migrated to Linux from Windows XP. I like MATE for many reasons. However, a couple of months ago I replaced my favourite DE with Cinnamon. While Cinnamon undoubtedly surpasses MATE in many ways, it also has some flaws, the main one for me being the system menu. MATE menu is more convenirent, that's why I replaced Cinnamon menu with CinnVIIStarkMenu (MATE mode). I still miss three features of the original MATE menu. 1. The option to open the menu with Favourites or All Programs displayed (Favourites is my choice). 2. Launching the selected app by hitting the Enter key (now it can be done only by clicking the app name with the mouse). 3. Two columns of Favourites insted of one (the menu grows too high when all my Favourites are in one column).

Michael Hagan-3 months ago

I don't know if this is just me, but I notice when I look through the all apps menu there is a weird visual bug where a random white shape flickers on the menu. This only happens in the CinnVIIStarkMenu when looking through all applications.

scoson-2 months ago

I have this graphical problem too since Vanessa. I filed an issue on github.

Juan-Lutz-2 months ago

I like this Menu type ! ... This "bug" effect appears to me too... I count on a prompt revision and a new version too. System LMC 21.1

sobmicha-4 months ago

I really miss the list of recently used apps…

idontknowhowbuttheyfoundme-7 months ago

Is there a way to make the search function also allow you to look into the system files the way windows does too?

Wilbur Jaywright-10 months ago

Awesome project! The only thing that I really felt was missing was a Recent Apps list under the pinned ones in the left column, as is present in Windows 5 through 7. TYL for the spice!

Ralph R. Schmidt-1 year ago

This applet is amazing! I just discovered it and I can highly recommend it for anyone who wants a simple, ordered and efficient start menu. As far as I can see it is maintained by a single user ('NikoKrause'). I do wish the source code for this applet contained more comments (in case official development is stopped it would make development by another user easier). I plan to use this applet as my main start menu from now on and would be gutted if development would stop at some point in the future. Keep up the good work!

richo-1 year ago

very good

Lowrida-1 year ago

Is there still any life in this project??

Lowrida-1 year ago

I love this menu! I use it from the first day i had Linux! But i have a question. In windows you have an animated icon when you click or hover over the menu. Is it possible to create this on your menu? I have 2 icons already.. one for static, one if hovering over.

Howard-1 year ago

In cinnamon if I right-click on an app icon in the panel, and select Edit, and edit the name, for example, and click Ok, this does not seem to update any of my .desktop files that I can find. Can you shed any light on this? Thanks!

Howard-1 year ago

How is the best way to update the menu after edits occur to my .desktop and .menu files? I can restart Cinnamon, but wondering if there is another, faster way.

CyberBob305-1 year ago

Is it possible to edit the starkmenu-icon in the taskbar? Maybe i'm blind (or dumb) but i can't find any way to change. thx

NikoKrause-1 year ago

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

Greyfus-1 year ago

I too am looking for a layout that more closely resembles XP start menu.

ACR-Jeff-1 year ago

I love this menu. There is only one thing I am getting frustrated with. There is no way to customize the menu that I am aware of as far as Width - Height. It would be nice if we could customize it to fit our screens properly. I customized the side menu to only have the items I need/want and now the whole menu height is far to small. This has been an issue for a long time.

ACR-Jeff-1 year ago

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.

samuelsa02-1 year ago

It would be nice, an option to change the size of the custom menu icon, as in the Cinnamon menu.

Ilie Alexandru-1 year ago

do you found a way to do this?

Andrei Miculita-1 year ago

Another thing about reproducing the XP menu: as far as I can tell, the last step would be to have a third layout: https://imgur.com/TmVKXk8 Where favorite programs are red, shortcuts (pictures, downloads, settings) are green, the user account info is dark yellow and the session buttons are blue

xcelsiour-2 years ago

I have a request. I want to get rid of the sidebar on the left when you go into all applications and just show the list only. https://i.imgur.com/QR36cW4.png I have it circled what I want to get rid of. How can I modify CinnVIIStarkMenu to make this happen? I have a feeling it's just one line or two I have to modify to do t his.

Aquaventurer-2 years ago

really good menu. so far no issues on linux mint 20.1

germe-fur-2 years ago

is a REALLY good menu.

Fred-2 years ago

God, help me..i'm blind! I think i've clicked in every link in this page, scrolled in every direction, and i can't find the changelog for the 13/12/2020 update. I mean, i click "open" in changelog section, i see the credits, the languages bla bla, and i can't see where do i click to see what's changed! I gave up and updated anyway, but i hate to update blindly. can anyone help?

NikoKrause-2 years ago

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".

Fred-2 years ago

I was indeed blind. Thanks! Btw, awesome work you've been doing, i always spread the word about this menu. The best ever made brother. Good job and have a nice day!

dtconnor-2 years ago

I would like to remove the Lock Screen/Logout/Quit buttons I have my own restart(reboot) and Shutdown(poweroff) buttons in Favorites I have looked around in the .js file but not being a coder not sure exactly what to comment out - can you point me in the right direction. THX

NikoKrause-2 years ago

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

dtconnor-2 years ago

DOH ! THX - perfect - beautiful menu btw

NikoKrause-2 years ago

Web search has been added to CinnVIIStarkMenu version 1.31 (in Cinnamon version 4.2+).

sanawu-2 years ago

It works in Mint 20 Cinnamon 4.6.7

Andrei Miculita-2 years ago

I've been trying to recreate the look of the Windows XP start menu. I took some screenshots and thought you might find them useful. Maybe it's not in your scope, but in case you want this applet to be able to look like XP, there are a few differences (I used the b00merang XP theme). https://imgur.com/Tu31kkT.png I don't know if it's the theme or the applet that would need to make some adjustments. These would be: less padding between programs, user picture and name in top margin, power buttons in bottom margin (I'll look into these in my free time :P). Maybe separate favorite programs and frequently used programs. It's almost pixel perfect for Vista and 7 themes though.

Andrei Miculita-2 years ago

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

Andrei Miculita-2 years ago

I honestly miss most of Cinnamenu's features such as fuzzy search, web search, and the built-in calculator. To me, in the long term, it would be nice to see these two applets merged. Regarding your plans to simplify the settings menu, maybe make some of the settings collapsible?

NikoKrause-2 years ago

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 :)

NikoKrause-2 years ago

I've updated this applet to version 1.29. The main change in this version is a significantly improved search function (in Cinnamon versions 4.2+). Furthermore I started a poll to find out which settings of the applet are used a lot and which are don't used at all or which are barely used. This will help me to improve the applet. You find the survey on GitHub: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/issues/3249 Thanks for your feedback in advance.

sallywoog-2 years ago

Where does this menu store the menu items? I hope it's NOT in dconf, which file/folder?

Ryan Festag-2 years 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-2 years ago

Given the alternatives, this is the best we got

Mpc46-2 years 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-3 years ago

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

Stephen Sepan-3 years ago

Thanks!

flansuse-3 years 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-3 years 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-3 years 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-3 years 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-3 years 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-3 years 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-3 years ago

It worked

Aliaksei Labotski-3 years ago

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

Derek-is-Eric-3 years 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-3 years 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-3 years 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-3 years ago

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

jimthedj65-3 years 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

Bendeguz1974-3 years 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-3 years 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!

jimthedj65-3 years ago

totally agree it should be part of the distribution.

magellan-13016-3 years ago

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

jimthedj65-3 years ago

would love this to support 19.2

salvamea-3 years ago

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

bassistguy-3 years 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-3 years 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-3 years 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-3 years 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.

alien1618-3 years 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-3 years 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-3 years 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-3 years 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-4 years 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-4 years 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-4 years ago

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

Hugo Meireles Gonçalves-4 years ago

Now working with Cinnamon 4.0! Thank you a lot.

eyzer24-4 years ago

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

eyzer24-4 years ago

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

NikoKrause-4 years ago

Added support for Cinnamon 4.0

Michel Casillas-4 years ago

What a beautifil thing.

Frank-4 years ago

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

Adeel Akram-5 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-5 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-5 years ago

Awesome !

Григорий Столяр-5 years ago

Great applet. Thanks.

Craig Lillie-5 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-5 years ago

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

James Upson-5 years ago

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

Bertrand Pivaty-5 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-5 years ago

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

Bertrand Pivaty-5 years ago

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

NikoKrause-5 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-5 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-5 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-4 years 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!

Henkel256-5 years ago

Work with Mint 17.1, very good. Thanks.

ACinnamonUserInUK-5 years ago

Very nice. Polished. Good work. Thank you.

kreha1-5 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-5 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-5 years ago

Does this have fuzzy search?

Reaw-5 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-5 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-5 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-5 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-5 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.

CinnVIIStarkMenu

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CinnVIIStarkMenu

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