What’s on the menu?

My latest Netrunner Magazine article - let us explore the world of Linux menus and launchers. The one place where your distro adventure begins. Please follow me.

http://netrunner-mag.com/?p=3588


Cheers,
Mrk

 

I prefer the Mint-menu (MATE-menu), Cinnamon would be my 2nd best but I don't like Cinnamon as much. I don't like the way it appears so tall compared to MATE.

 

you can reduce and increase hight of cinnamon menu did you try that .......


Edit: opps sorry i guess with cinnamon 2 its not possible i didnt notice it.

thanks for putting light on it mattdocs

 

I've grown accustomed to KDE's Kicker. Does the job for me.

 

How do you increase and reduce the menu height please?

 

sorry it was my mistake its not possible in new cinnamon 2 as it was on old one i can drag screen size with theme and change size easy with new one you to edit theme very messy job.



also there is no menu bar in terminal which is very usefull do this trick very helpful

http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=151412

 

Im sure there is some crazy scripts/terminal commands that would do that lol. But yeah I didn't see any easy options. Also MATE gives me a little bit of Windows XP nostalgia. The "Places" and "System" lists and the "Applications" on the right hand side make me feel right at home.

 

I use both the Kickoff and Classic menus in Linux Mint 13KDE . Since upgrading Virtualbox to V4.3.0 I've discovered that I can run all my distros (well, almost) with 3D acceleration enabled – this means that I can now run Cinnamon OK and have switched to it in Linux Mint 15.
Still can't run Fedora 19 with Gnome3 (runs OK with 3D acceleration disabled) so I've gone with Cinnamon and Fedora now runs just fine.

 

Whisker Menu would be my first choice and the second one old good mint menu