Hello Linux Geeksters. Whisker Menu is an 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 latest version available is Whisker 1.4.3, which has been recently released, bringing with bug-fixes:
- Fix hang at launch by removing load thread
- Fix not saving sorted favorites
- Translation updates: French, Hungarian, Russian, Slovak
For more information, see this page.
In this article I will show you how to install Whisker Menu 1.4.3 on Fedora 21, Fedora 20, OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1 and Debian 7 Wheezy, all using XFCE as the default desktop environment.
How to install Whisker Menu 1.4.3 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'
$ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gottcode/Debian_7.0/Release.key
$ sudo apt-key add - < Release.key
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
How to install Whisker Menu 1.4.3 on Fedora 21:
$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gottcode/Fedora_21/home:gottcode.repo
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
How to install Whisker Menu 1.4.3 on Fedora 20:
$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:gottcode/Fedora_20/home:gottcode.repo
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
How to install Whisker Menu 1.4.3 on OpenSUSE 13.2:
$ sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gottcode/openSUSE_13.2/home:gottcode.repo
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
How to install Whisker Menu 1.4.3 on OpenSUSE 13.1:
$ sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gottcode/openSUSE_13.1/home:gottcode.repo
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin