{"id":33144,"date":"2020-12-26T16:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33144"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T16:42:15","slug":"whisker-menu-2-5-released-for-xfce-4-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/whisker-menu-2-5-released-for-xfce-4-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Whisker Menu 2.5 Released with Updates for Xfce 4.16 [Ubuntu PPA]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/xfce-icon250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/xfce-icon250.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/xfce-icon250-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whisker Menu, an alternate application launcher for Xfce, released version 2.5.0 with updated icons and refactor code for the new Xfce 4.16 desktop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gottcode.org\/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin\/#releasenotes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whisker Menu 2.5.0<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add option to show all applications by default<\/li>\n<li>Rearrange sidebar buttons to match default category<\/li>\n<li>Show panel button title as tooltip in icon-only mode<\/li>\n<li>Always sort top-level categories<\/li>\n<li>Vertically center contents of header<\/li>\n<li>Use new Xfce action icons<\/li>\n<li>Use new desktop ids for default programs<\/li>\n<li>Rewrite to hide menu on focus out<\/li>\n<li>Refactor code to use new Xfce functions<\/li>\n<li>Refactor building translations<\/li>\n<li>Translation updates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/xfce-whisker-menu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/xfce-whisker-menu.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/xfce-whisker-menu-450x310.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Whisker Menu in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>If you use <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~xubuntu-dev\/+archive\/ubuntu\/staging\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xubuntu QA Staging PPA<\/a>, you&#8217;ll find Whisker Menu is available for updating along with Xfce 4.16 packages.<\/p>\n<p>The software is also available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~gottcode\/+archive\/ubuntu\/gcppa\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">developer&#8217;s PPA<\/a> for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, and Linux Mint 19.x, 20.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal from system application menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gottcode\/gcppa<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) for sudo prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/whisker-menu-ppa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"142\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/whisker-menu-ppa.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/whisker-menu-ppa-450x107.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then either run commands one by one to install the application menu:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin<\/pre>\n<p>or upgrade the package via system package manager.<\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall:<\/h3>\n<p>To remove the PPA, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:gottcode\/gcppa<\/pre>\n<p>It&#8217;s not recommended to remove Whisker Menu on Xfce desktop unless you use another application menu. You can however purge the PPA, which will downgrade the app menu to the stock version:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:gottcode\/gcppa<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whisker Menu, an alternate application launcher for Xfce, released version 2.5.0 with updated icons and refactor code for the new Xfce 4.16 desktop. Whisker Menu 2.5.0 release highlights: Add option to show all applications by default Rearrange sidebar buttons to match default category Show panel button title as tooltip in icon-only mode Always sort top-level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-33144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-xfce4"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}