LXDE - Enable Mint menu

[flebber]

How do enable the mint menu in lxde 11?

[viper]

I don't think there is a mint menu for lxde, atleast not yet.

[Oscar799]

Moved here from Newbie Questions

[Aging Technogeek]

I tried to add mintMenu to LXDE from Synaptic after reading this thread earlier today. It installed fine but will not run because there are many files that are native to Gnome but not included in LXDE that mintMenu requires to run.

These are not part of the Synaptic dependency package for mintMenu. If you can find all the required files, install them in LXDE, and get them to work, maybe mintMenu will run. To get a list of the required files, install mintMenu and try to start it from terminal by entering "mintMenu" . It will return a list of missing files needed to run the menu.

[zerozero]

according to Kendall, the mintmenu doesn't work in lxde

by Kendall on Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:42 am

vincent wrote:Right click your mintMenu and select "Reload plugins". If that doesn't work, logout and log back in.



The LXDE menu doesn't have an option to reload the plugins. As mintMenu doesn't work in LXDE, adding it isn't an effective option either.

Open the file manager and navigate to /usr/share/applications and see if there is a launcher there for QCad. If there is, then open it with Leafpad and post the contents here. If there is not, then let me know and I'll try to make a .desktop file for you.

[vrkalak]

I know that I don't use LXDE, but I do use Fluxbox with LMDE.

I couldn't get MintMenu or MintUpdate to show up in my Fluxbox panel or fluxbox 'rightclick' menu ... what I did was:

I already knew that the various MintTools were installed with LMDE (Gnome) . . . .

So, I used the CLI (terminal) to open MintUpdate.
Then selected to 'enable' MintUpdate to my Fluxbox launcher in the panel.
The MintUpdate icon shows in my Fluxbox-panel and it works great now.

Still working on getting the MintMenu to work with the Fluxbox Slit (launcher)

Maybe, the 'terminal' method will work with adding either or both to the LXDE panel?

[flebber]

I iniitally thought that I read it(The ability to enable mintmenu in LXDE)in the release notes of LXDE, but I have read re-read LXDE release notes and LMDE(in case I had gotten confused) but I cannot find any

Not sure how much future work would get done on MintMenu with Gnome 3 out. I trialed it with fedora and loved it on a laptop but fedora was to unstable to use(I need to work), can't wait for it to hit mint.

[tdockery97]

OK, here it is. The actual, genuine Mint Menu on Mint 11 LXDE. Installation was a little unorthodox for LXDE, but it works. The inxi printout in the terminal verifies that it's LXDE:

[flebber]

OK, here it is. The actual, genuine Mint Menu on Mint 11 LXDE. Installation was a little unorthodox for LXDE, but it works. The inxi printout in the terminal verifies that it's LXDE:



Edit: Note that everything in the Mint Menu works except Logout and Quit. I never use logout, and shutdown and reboot can both be done through Terminal, so it doesn't matter to me, but for some it could be reason enough not to install Mint Menu on LXDE.

Awesome. I like your desktop as a whole, can I ask as well how I get the launch bar at the bottom?

[tdockery97]

Awesome. I like your desktop as a whole, can I ask as well how I get the launch bar at the bottom?

The dock is Avant Window Navigator (AWN). You can install it with Package Manager.

And if you do want to try the Mint Menu, you just have to use gnome-panel instead of lxde-panel. You just edit /etc/xdg/lxsession/Mint-LXDE/autostart and replace the @lxpanel whatever with @gnome-panel. Then install mintmenu from package manager, reboot, you will now have gnome panel (but it looks the same as lx panel) and you can right-click, "add to panel" and select Mint Menu.

[nunol]

The Mint menu takes some RAM, with the Mint Menu the LXDE version uses more RAM than a standard XFCE version and only a little less than Mint 11.

[tdockery97]

According to System Monitor, Mint Menu uses 13MB of RAM. I'm still running significantly less than the Gnome desktop, and if LXDE has slowed down at all, I cannot tell it. It feels just as quick as before installing the Mint Menu. Obviously, if you have a 10 year old pc with only 512MB RAM, don't use it. But with 3GB RAM I'm not going to give up Mint Menu.

[nunol]

With top I find the Mint Menu uses a little more RAM than that but only on low RAM computers it makes a difference like you said, 512MB or less.

[sagirfahmid3]

Hi guys, I have a few things to say:

Who says MintMenu doesn't work in LXDE!?! YES IT DOES! Would you rather have the ugly LXPanel? or the much better looking Gnome Panel?
I have it on my LXDE and it works, but yes, it has only TWO issues, which I can think of (which I think can be easily fixed. The first problem has an easy fix; I don't know about the second).

1.The "logout" button in MintMenu wont work for LXDE, but this can be easily fixed by making a new entry in the menu and giving it the same command as the LXPanel's logout button.

2.The mysterious one...For some reason, open windows will not show up on the panel (you know how when you have many applications open, you can click on the taskbar's windows for those applications to open them?..well, in LXDE this feature wont work for some reason. However, I believe there is a simple fix for this as well. If someone knows how to fix this, I would appreciate it if you would be so kind to share it with us. In the meanwhile, I will try to get to the cause of this myself.

Look at the screenshot to see what I mean.