Can I use the whisker menu in Zorin lite 17.3? I tried to install it with "sudo apt install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin" but after it has been installed I can´t find it.
In the Zorin menu lite is a strange error:
Isn´t it possible to edit the menu this way, that it appears mirror-inverted? There aren´t any preferences for the menu appearance. Because of this uncomfortable menu and due to the few options available when selecting the appearance image (themes, icons...) I changed to Linux Mint, but I want to try it once again, because I now know a lot more about the customization options.
Thanks for the linked video. I have now found the whisker menu.
However, there is something wrong with the Zorin menu lite. In the whisker menu I can customise the appearance, when I click on the eye to edit the selected object (e.g. so that the categories are displayed on the left-hand side), in Zorin menu nothing happens when I click on the eye. I guess it has to do with this strange error that always appears in Zorin menu since installation. Can you please forward the error to the Zorin team or see what it means and how to fix it?
When exactly does the error message appear? If it's when selecting a particular image, it may be due to its format although I'm not sure if this is really the case, or which format is valid (I will try to download Lite later and test).
The message is there all the time as soon as I right-click on the Zorin button and enter the menu to edit it.
I don't know if it has to do with the fact that there were already yellow warning signs with exclamation marks behind all the selection options when selecting icons (all from Zorin, not downloaded).
No, there is nothing wrong in the Zorin menu lite. Zorin Team has designed and developed it in that way to have that one customisation to get it blend with the Zorin's default look and feel. They don't provide further options to customise it just like in case of Whisker menu.
It just not only in the case of Zorin menu lite, if you explore other plugins as well you will notice few of them has the same behaviour (edit option not available).
The error you are getting, it looks like something related to a .desktop file. Can you please post that error screenshot in English? I know the forum has included a translate option recently but it works only for texts.
"The following desktop files have not passed parsing by the underlying library and are therefore not displayed in MenuLibre.
Please investigate these problems with the responsible package administrator.
/usr/share...
Exec The programme...was not found in the path."
This is the translation. I switched my system into english to take the screenshot, but there is no warning in the menu, only in german.
Nachtrag:
This error message in menu libre has now disappeared after I changed the language settings first to English and then back to German.
This is the warning at all icons (appears in English and German):
Warning: This symbol theme is not cached. You can create the cache file by running gtk-update-icon-cache/usr/share/icons/ZorinBlue-Dark/ in a terminal emulator.
This is not harmful as far as I believe. I had always ignored it in my previous use cases and everything seems to be fine. Although you can run that mentioned command to generate the cache for that icon pack. I never was interested in finding what benefit cached icon packs provide. Maybe someone else can fillup us what that could be.
Thank you for the information, I didn't know that. Can I open the whisker menu with the big Zorin button? I assigned a Zorin icon to the whisker menu, but it is small.
I would like to create a starter for my ‘documents’ in the whisker menu. Unfortunately, it does not work as desired, the folder cannot be opened. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to use the german file names or the english ones?
The path where the file "documents" is searched is wrong: "/home/USERMAME/~/Dokumente". I don't understand why the folder is searched for there, I haven't entered it anywhere. Because of this it isn't found.The command in the terminal "thunar ~/Dokumente" runs well.
At work right now and can't remember the exact setting, but if you edit the settings of the Panel, there should be somewhere an option of "Auto scale icon sizes" or something to that effect. That should help your icon be the size it actually should be.
@applecheeks37 Yes, that's right. I had already tried that. Then all my icons got bigger. I didn't manage to make a single icon as big as the Zorin start button.
That's one of the things about the XFCE panel that I don't like, it's really hard to get the icon sizes consistent.
You could try resizing the icon that you're trying to use to a different size, or remove some of the padding or transparency around it so that it appears a little larger.
It should actually be enough to just add a directory instead of a starter. I tried that first. Unfortunately, it didn't work.
Perhaps the command "Add a directory" only creates a menu item in the start menu, but not yet a launcher to run a program.
Agree with @zenzen
Sometimes it annoying to get the correct icon size in xfce panel.
Previously for whisker menu icon I had used a different way to get it done without affecting the rest of icon size of panel's element. The process is involved using Zorin's glyph symbol in the text field and adjust it's size with gtk.css
Nerd fonts: Nerd Fonts - Iconic font aggregator, glyphs/icons collection, & fonts patcher
First you need a Nerd font present system wide. It doesn't matter which one, just get one that looks good to you and put it in your /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ . It just need to be present in the system, no need to select it as your default font.
Save the file and refresh/restart the panel with xfce4-panel -r
It's done. You should now get a bigger icon size for whisker menu without affecting the rest of the icon size.
Note: Depending on your panel configuration you might get a different result than mine, in this case change the color , font-size and padding-right values depending upon how you are getting the results after restarting the panel. Play around with the values for a bit until you get the perfect ones for you.
