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When I right click and select edit menu I’m able to create a new category under the menu, however when I do submenus under that category it will not display, any tools I install under those subcategories will display in the main category I created.

Then I noticed that the entire cinnamon menu categories do not have submenu like kde or gnome

Is it not possible to create submenus?

Thanks

Nix

As you have confirmed, the Cinnamon menu will not display them. Have a good look at the way the Cinnamon menu works; where exactly would the subcategories and their contents be shown If this is very important to you, perhaps have a look at the other menus you can use. You'll find various menus on the Cinnamon Spices website: http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets

xenopeek wrote:As you have confirmed, the Cinnamon menu will not display them. Have a good look at the way the Cinnamon menu works; where exactly would the subcategories and their contents be shown If this is very important to you, perhaps have a look at the other menus you can use. You'll find various menus on the Cinnamon Spices website: http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets

Thanks for the quick response

For what I’m looking it won’t work, I think I’ll try Mate and see if I can work with it.

Thanks again

The mintMenu on MATE works the same. But you can add the classic GNOME menu (Applications Places System) and that may be able to show subcategories.

xenopeek wrote:The mintMenu on MATE works the same. But you can add the classic GNOME menu (Applications Places System) and that may be able to show subcategories.

Can i do this in Cinnamon or just in MATE?

On Cinnamon you can add the menus from Cinnamon Spices as I mentioned. On MATE you can add the classic GNOME menu by right-clicking on the panel, selecting add to panel, then finding the menu you want to add there. But I think you can get the classic GNOME menu also from Cinnamon Spices, just have a look. (The applet called "Classic Menu" is actually the mintMenu from MATE made suitable for Cinnamon; you don't want that one, but the classic GNOME menu should be there somewhere also.)

Thank you, i really appreciate your help

I’ll give it a try tonight and see what happened, i will try the applet, if it does what i need then it's all good, if not, I’ll just install MATE and setup the classic menu

Cheers

switched to KDE
it does everything i need

xenopeek wrote:As you have confirmed, the Cinnamon menu will not display them. Have a good look at the way the Cinnamon menu works; where exactly would the subcategories and their contents be shown If this is very important to you, perhaps have a look at the other menus you can use. You'll find various menus on the Cinnamon Spices website: http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets

Just looked at the options on that site yesterday. ***NONE*** of them correctly handle submenus, as far as I can see. I like Cinnamon and Mate, but I can't use them with this problem still in place.