Remove Menu from Panel [SOLVED]

[Dinosaur1946]

Hi All

Mint 18.3 Cinnamon.

Using Alt+F1 to open the menu, I thought I could safely remove the menu from the panel.
However, when you do, Alt+F1 opens a workspace. Mint 17.3 didn't have this problem.

I am trying to limit access to certain Icons on the screen, as there is no keyboard attached.
Only when I plug in a keyboard should I be able to access the menu.

Can I run the Menu from a command and what would that command be.?
Have tried looking for it, but to no avail.

[deepakdeshp]

With vncviewer installed on any machine on your LAN you can use gui and menu of your mint computer and run it headless

[Dinosaur1946]

Hi All

That would be a whole new learning curve for me.
Additionally, my Lan is disabled on each machine as I am running Time critical
machine operations.

Appreciate the suggestion though.

[Cosmo.]

In all versions of Cinnamon alt-F1 opens the workspace overview (aka Expo). If your 17.3 acts differently, you have changed it.

You can open the keyboard settings and disable the shortcut for expo. Now you can open the menu configuration (right click the menu icon in the panel) and set the keyboard shortcut for it. Never tried that myself, as I would not know why.

The menu is an applet. I don't know a command line method to open it (or any applet at all).

[Dinosaur1946]

Hi All

Cosmo, yes I did change it on 17.3 but the Menu could still be opened by pressing Alt+F1
after removing the Menu from the panel.
In 18.3 it won't.

deepakdeshp I bit the bullet and installed X11vnc server on the remote and VNC Viewer on the laptop.
Figured I could just enable the network whilst updating the machines, and then shut it down again.

All working fine, however the object is still to allow only certain applications on the remote.
Imagine a blank screen with no Panel, one application Icon, and one locked folder.

Ok, so I can put lots of Icons in the locked folder, but that still does not give me access to the Menu.?

Any suggestions ?

[Dinosaur1946]

Hi All

In the end it was easy.
Create a Folder on the screen (I called it Desktop2)
Create sub folders named as per the Menu (ie: Preferences, Administration etc)
Right Click on every Menu Entry and "Add to Desktop"
Then drag each Desktop Icon into the appropriate /DeskTop2/ subfolder.
Even allowed me to group the Icons by Function. (ie: put all network / Internet Icons in Networks sub folder)

Removed Menu from screen and all is good.

All I have to do now, is get rid of the "Right Click Menu" from the screen.