Whisker is an and innovative alternative for the XFCE default menu, including a modern search bar and enabling users to easily access all the installed apps from the system, or access applications by categories. It also remembers the last 10 used applications. The Whisker Menu is the default application menu for Linux Mint 15 XFCE.
The latest version available is Whisker 1.3.0, which has been recently released. Among others, it comes with many bug-fixes, support for new Linux distros, a new command for easily changing the user and a new option for operating the menu via some keyboard shortcuts. For a full list of changes, see this page.
In this article I will show you how to install Whisker Menu 1.3.0 on Debian Wheezy, Fedora 19, Fedora 18, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 12.3, OpenSUSE 12.2, all using the XFCE desktop environment.
How to install Whisker Menu 1.3.0 on Debian Wheezy:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gottcode/Debian_7.0/ /" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.list'
$ apt-get update
$ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gottcode/Debian_7.0/Release.key
$ apt-key add - < Release.key
$ apt-get install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
How to install Whisker Menu 1.3.0 on Fedora 19:
$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gottcode/Fedora_19/home:gottcode.repo
$ yum install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
How to install Whisker Menu 1.3.0 on Fedora 18:
$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gottcode/Fedora_18/home:gottcode.repo
$ yum install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
How to install Whisker Menu 1.3.0 on OpenSUSE 13.1:
$ zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gottcode/openSUSE_Factory/home:gottcode.repo
$ zypper refresh
$ zypper install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
How to install Whisker Menu 1.3.0 on OpenSUSE 12.3:
$ zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gottcode/openSUSE_12.3/home:gottcode.repo
$ zypper refresh
$ zypper install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
How to install Whisker Menu 1.3.0 on OpenSUSE 12.2:
$ zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gottcode/openSUSE_12.3/home:gottcode.repo
$ zypper refresh
$ zypper install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin