{"id":3566,"date":"2014-06-30T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2014-06-30T12:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:25:24","slug":"install-whisker-menu-1-4-ubuntu-14-10-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/install-whisker-menu-1-4-ubuntu-14-10-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Whisker Menu 1.4 for Xfce4 in Ubuntu 14.10 \/ 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/xfce-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1820\" alt=\"xfce4 whisker menu\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/xfce-logo.png\" width=\"270\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whisker Menu is an alternate application launcher for Xfce, it gives you a unity\/gnome3 style search in xfce4 desktop. As well as that you can browse through all of your installed applications by clicking on the category buttons on the side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/whisker-menu-xfce4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3567\" alt=\"whisker menu in ubuntu 14.04\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/whisker-menu-xfce4.png\" width=\"540\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/whisker-menu-xfce4.png 540w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/whisker-menu-xfce4-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whisker Menu is the default app launcher in Linux Mint Xfce edition since Mint 15 Olivia. The developer has released version 1.4.0 with new features and various translation updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add option to switch position of categories and launchers<\/li>\n<li>Add waiting for grabs<\/li>\n<li>allows modifier as shortcut<\/li>\n<li>Add padding to username<\/li>\n<li>Add single panel row option<\/li>\n<li>Add about entry to context menu<\/li>\n<li>Load applications immediately<\/li>\n<li>Recognize keypad enter as return for searching<\/li>\n<li>Set menu window type hint to DIALOG<\/li>\n<li>Translation updates: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Norwegian Bokm\u00e5l, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Install Whisker Menu 1.4.0 in Ubuntu 14.10 \/ 14.04:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The binary packages has been built into developer&#8217;s PPA, available for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives such as Linux Mint 13 and 17.<\/p>\n<p>Press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, paste the command below and run to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gottcode\/gcppa<\/pre>\n<p>After that install it via your package manager after checking for updates. Or run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin<\/pre>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t like Ubuntu PPAs, grab the .deb package directly from the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~gottcode\/+archive\/gcppa\/+packages\" target=\"_blank\">launchpad page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, add the launcher menu onto panel and move it to the left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/add-whisker-menu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/add-whisker-menu.jpg\" alt=\"add whisker menu to launcher\" width=\"550\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/add-whisker-menu.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/add-whisker-menu-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whisker Menu is an alternate application launcher for Xfce, it gives you a unity\/gnome3 style search in xfce4 desktop. As well as that you can browse through all of your installed applications by clicking on the category buttons on the side. Whisker Menu is the default app launcher in Linux Mint Xfce edition since Mint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[855,1084,663],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-linux-mint","tag-ubuntu-14-04","tag-ubuntu-14-10","tag-whisker-menu"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","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=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}