How To: Mint Style Gnome Menu in Ubuntu

[KdotJ]

Thanks for the instructions. Isn't this similar to the menu in OpenSuse Gnome?

Similar, the one in openSUSE I believe is the gnome-main-menu which I mentioned in my post. I like it, but you have to click to get to "Places" and if you want to see all of the applications, you have to open the application browser window. This is the reason I don't like it, it then becomes not really a menu

[JK3mp]

Made it on lifehacker, congrats. http://lifehacker.com/5624445/get-th...menu-in-ubuntu

[M4570D0N]

Here is a PPA for this: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/mintmenu

And while we're at Mint, here's a PPA for MintBackup too: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/mintbackup

There was an update from this ppa yesterday for mintmenu 5.1.3-1~webupd8~maverick .

After installing the update, I no longer have icons displayed for anything in the menus. I checked the preferences and everything looks the same as it was before and the "show category icons" box is still checked. Is anyone else having this issue? How do I resolve this?

[M4570D0N]

^^Issue resolved. I'm apparently half retarded for not noticing what changed.

Hi,
Yes, this is a known regression, but also an expected one.

mintmenu used to use icon sizes such as 1, 2, 3 or 4.

Since yesterday, mintmenu now uses pixels from 1, all the way to 128. The default values are fine, but the ones you have are still somewhere between 1 and 4... which now means between 1 and 4 pixels!

Solutions:

- Right click on the menu, select "Preferences", and change the icon size for applications, favorites, places and system. Good default values are respectively 22, 48, 16 and 16.

or

- Drop to a terminal. Remove mintmenu from the panel. Type "mintmenu reset". Re-add mintmenu to the panel.

The second solution has the advantage of using all the default values (including the new button icon).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/646447

[nilarimogard]

I was just about to reply with the fix. Thanks for posting it

[sandrafax]

I like your style. Here are some scarves online you can use it.