ArcMenu - Gnome Shell Extension

I have recently customised Zorin core by installing ArcMenu from Gnome Shell extensions

and noticed it also changes the lock screen and shows open windows:

You can also change the theming of the menu by a selection of its own colour schemes:

A plethora of menu styles (layouts):

Traditional:

Modern:

Touch Menu Layouts:

Simple Menu Layouts:

Launcher Menu Layouts:

Alternative Menu Layouts:

Which is what I am currently using, 'Raven':

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Windows 11 layout - if you must!:

such a cool extension, i like that you can use it to create a launcher button at the top and essentially pull of the cosmic search thingy, by binding it to a hotkey, epic feature

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That should not be affected by ArcMenu. But the Extension is a really good One. I use it, too.

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Shows I am getting old. I don't even remember posting this! :exploding_head:

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Any other cool gnome extensions? That you may know of

@DotWayton Gnome extension "Burn my windows"

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I think the issue now is the change with Gnome Extension Manager isn't the same as the web version. Additionally extensions need to be continually updated by the authors of the extensions to match the current Gnome Shell version. Yet another reason I guess why I am now more of a Plasma fan. Gnome wants to control the horizontal and the vertical, "do not adjust your TV Set"! (Can't remember which TV program that was from!).

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That depends what You think is a ''cool Extension''. What I like to find for Gnome Desktop (basic Stuff and more):

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How did you manage to make your menu transparent?

Hi and welcome.

That is how ArcMenu is - transparent (from memory). That was me messing around on an old drive that is now perished. I only run Zorin as a VM these days.
My preferred OS is PCLOS Debian (Plasma) or Q4OS (Plasma). Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is also good, once Plasma is installed on it.

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My guess he hacked the themes .css file, but it was back when Gnome supported such feature. I don't think it's possible anymore.

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I will just launch my VM of 18 Core and see what happenz!

Forgot! Can't do that as I removed Gnome for Plasma! LOL!

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Ya i use arc menu extensions manager and tweaks to make the center menu look and act with windows button with a top bar had the windows fonts in an such but over time i changed icons to Slot-Light-Icons so i have the win 11 middle menu and thats about it

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At tab "Menu" > "Menu Theme" you can enable "Override theme". When you then select "ArcMenu Style" or "Simply Dark" as current themes, you get a little bit of transparency.

Perhaps the theme Swarfendor used is no longer available. I only see four available themes, and none of them have the same level of transparency as the screenshot Swarfendor posted. Maybe these themes are no longer offered in the current version of the ArcMenu extension. I haven't figured out yet how to get all these themes.

Edit: I edited a file in the extension to set a background color with transparency. If you want to try that, please save the original file
~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/arcmenu@arcmenu.com/theming.js
before at another place, e.g. on desktop, so that you can restore it.

This is what I did:

I set the Menu theme to override the theme and selected ArcMenu Style.
I changed line 169 there as shwon on the screenshot. You can choose any rgba color you like, the last value 0.05 is the opacity, you can change it to a value you like between 0 (fully transparent) and 1 (fully opaque).

So it looks with an opacity value of 0.4 and background color, hover background menu items and active background menu items set to purple (just played a bit around):

If you like a light start menu, you need to adapt some more lines to change the font color. I set the font to black color #000000 in my test.
Some ideas here:
line 166 (which is .arcmenu-menu):
color: #000000;
line 169:
.arcmenu-menu .popup-menu-content { background-color: rgba(234, 240, 246, 0.8);
line 190 (which is .arcmenu-menu .popup-menu-item)
color: #000000;

I also changed the transparency of the right box in the Zest theme at .zest.js from 0.2 to 0.05.

If you are interested in a transparency Zorin start menu and don´t like to edit .css files (it is very hard to take effects at all on Zorin start menu), you can take a look at the gnome extension Open Bar. Enable in Zorin taskbar the option to keep the original gnome top bar and at tab "Popup Menus" set a custom value for BG Alpha. You need to play a bit with the many settings. I have not used that extension for longer personally (unfortunately you can mess up things very easy).

Now I found another way to give Zorin start menu transparency. You can edit the gnome-shell.css file of the Zorin gtk theme (note: it can be overwritten by updates and you need root rights to do this). Convert the hexcode for the background color at .popup-menu-content into rgb and then add a custom value for the transparency.

For example:
Zorin Blue light theme:


Zorin Blue dark theme:


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Hola chicos , interesnate lo que encuentro aqui yo puse asi en mi systema como decoracion manual imagenes alta calidad PNG

y en los proximos dias manipulare el proprio logo de ZORIN cuando lo abras eso si respetando las dimenciones de las imagenes y sus formatos le dare vida digamos
yo en el logo estoy intentado que un zorro abra la boca y muerda del simbolo de Z respetando su formato simplemente lo muerde y una parte desaparece cuando este se retira mastica y viene el otro y da otro bocado pero del otro lado obio respetando las imagenes transparentes y todo eso pero creo que me voy a enfadar y cambiare el diseño ya que es muy complejo que abra la boca ambos zorros esos animalitos de ahi pienso yo que viene Zorin es astuto inteligente etc como los zorros vamos por eso elegi a los zorros :smiley: y una vez terminado pasare rapido un vistazo y si esta todo bien me la cargo en mi sistema despues lo publicare aqui peor otro Hilo esten atento quiza sea con otro modelo en vez de zorros cambiare la forma o algo ya vere yo :smiley:

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