Reordering Menu categories in Mint 21.1 Cinnamon

[nonhocapito]

I have just installed Mint 21.1 cinnamon, and I would like to reorder the categories in the menu.

It would be good if I could also reorganize the items within the different categories, but reordering the categories is a basic necessity.

The standard cinnamon menu editor doesn't do it.

I downloaded Menu libre from the Software Manager, it seems to let me do some changes, they are even permanent within the software, but they are not reflected in the menu.

I then tried alacarte, and it doesn't work (won't allow me to move up or down any item, even if I can click on such buttons.)

Probably the aforementioned software versions are not designed to work with Mint 21.1..?

I see that a more recent version of menu libre can be found on github, but the installing of dependencies and building of the app requires too much effort and appears gruesome at first try.

Is there any tested way to easily achieve this in Mint 21.1?

[xenopeek]

You can't reorder categories with a menu editor. The Cinnamon menu applet creates the categories labels at run time from the Categories variable in each app's .desktop file, and sorts them alphabetically. To make it use some other order you'd have to edit the applet code; https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/t ... nnamon.org.

You can also look if maybe there is a different menu applet that does what you want. Through Settings > Applets you can browse and install any available applets. You can also browse applets online first if you want: https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets. I don't readily know of a menu applet that does what you want.

[nonhocapito]

You can't reorder categories with a menu editor.

Yet I think this is what Menu Libre or Alacarte are designed to do?