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Cinnamon submenus [solved]

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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

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Re: Cinnamon submenus

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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 :wink: 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
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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 :wink: 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
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Re: Cinnamon submenus

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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.
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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?
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Re: Cinnamon submenus

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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.)
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Re: Cinnamon submenus

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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

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switched to KDE
it does everything i need
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Re: Cinnamon submenus

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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 :wink: 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.
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