I updated LMDX v4 and I WANT MY MINTMENU BACK! [SOLVED]

[_sluimers_]

Xfapplet is gone and I believe no longer supported, so mintmenu now depends on libmate. I can therefore no longer do:
Panel -> Add new Items -> xfApplet

I can't live without my mintmenu.
How do I get it back?

[zerozero]

the focus in mintmenu development is now mate, so the easiest answer would be install mate

[GeneC]

I guess there are several of us who would prefer to run XFCE with Mint Menu and not MATE.

Mate still has bugs when running Compiz.

Hopefully the devs will notice that XFCE seems to be getting ignored on this, and re-port Mint Menu to XFCE.

[zerozero]

yeahh, i know what you mean Gene, i was just stating a fact

[GeneC]

Not your fault, my friend.

[hirwen]

I guess there are several of us who would prefer to run XFCE with Mint Menu and not MATE

+1

[_sluimers_]

I got it back!

I installed mate-panel and made it run on startup.
Now all I need is to get rid off the xfce panel on startup.

[Monsta]

I got it back!

I installed mate-panel and made it run on startup.

Now that's one kind of a heavy workaround.

[_sluimers_]

Okay, I simply deleted xfce4-panel, now all I need to figure out is how I can get the quit button to work on mintmenu.
When I press it, it does nothing.

[_sluimers_]

I got it back!

I installed mate-panel and made it run on startup.

Now that's one kind of a heavy workaround.

I don't there's any other solution, unless the Mint team starts coding and throwing a xfce4-mateapplet-plugin on one of their repositories for us or better yet, write an xfce-mintmenu.
My computer can handle it. I mainly have XFCE for the fast startup time. I hate waiting at reboots.

[_sluimers_]

Okay, I edited /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/system_management.py, manually setting self.de to xfce, because it thinks it's in MATE and adding the two other buttons (why not?), which for some reason is omitted for xfce in system_ management.py.
I haven't properly tested it yet, but I used xfce4-session-logout --halt for Quit.
Now all I'm missing a program for Lock Screen. I tried xflock4, but I get

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/usr/bin/xflock4: 29: /usr/bin/xflock4: xlock: not found


[EDIT]
I installed xlockmore from http://packages.debian.org/sid/xlockmore, looks ugly, but it works for xflock4. xlockmore-gl is no improvement by the way.
So I use xflock4 for Screen Lock and the menu works, woohoo \o/.
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self.de = 'xfce'


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if self.de == "xfce":
            if ( self.showLockScreen == True ):
                Button5 = easyButton( "system-lock-screen", self.iconsize, [_("Lock Screen")], -1, -1 )
                Button5.connect( "clicked", self.ButtonClicked, "xflock4" )
                Button5.show()
                self.systemBtnHolder.pack_start( Button5, False, False )
                self.mintMenuWin.setTooltip( Button5, _("Requires password to unlock") )
            if ( self.showLogout == True ):
                Button6 = easyButton( "system-log-out", self.iconsize, [_("Logout")], -1, -1 )
                Button6.connect( "clicked", self.ButtonClicked, "xfce4-session-logout" )
                Button6.show()
                self.systemBtnHolder.pack_start( Button6, False, False )
                self.mintMenuWin.setTooltip( Button6, _("Log out or switch user") )
            if ( self.showQuit == True ):
                Button7 = easyButton( "system-shutdown", self.iconsize, [_("Quit")], -1, -1 )
                Button7.connect( "clicked", self.ButtonClicked, "xfce4-session-logout --halt" )
                Button7.show()
                self.systemBtnHolder.pack_start( Button7, False, False )
                self.mintMenuWin.setTooltip( Button7, _("Shutdown, restart, suspend or hibernate") )


[Monsta]

It seems that MATE developers have started to work on adapting xfapplet to MATE, judging by these commits at github. It's not clear what's done and what's not (are those search/replace/build scripts enough?), and I couldn't find any info about it in their wiki.
You can ask them in MATE subforum here though.

[hirwen]

Thanks Monsta, I will make a new install with the last iso I downloaded in order to restart to a clean station. I'll see what is possible to do with the script or else.

[Travis No]

Okay, I edited /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/system_management.py...

Any chance you could post a diff so that I can be sure I'm not sticking code in the wrong place when I give this a try?

Thanks!

[m2xtreme]

I hope this makes it into the Mint repos soon. I've been craving some xfapplet/mintmenu goodness.

[Monsta]

Well, you guys can kindly ask the developers to finish the job by reporting an issue at this github page. (Unfortunately, you'll have to register there first.)

[Monsta]

Good news guys
Mint 13 XFCE RC is out with the updated xfapplet and mintMenu support. Clem said that LMDE XFCE will get these improvements too.

Clem

Will LMDE/XFCE get MintMenu?

@GeneC: Yes, we’ll focus on development and an LMDE update after KDE and Xfce editions are out. All improvements, including the mintMenu support for Xfce will make their way into LMDE.

[m2xtreme]

Good to know it's coming to LMDE soon too. Thanks for the heads up!

[ringo32]

and where is the mintmenu wothout using the expimental repository? its now updatepack5 ..., so for this we need xfce 4.10 ! so when goes the upgrade to 4.10?