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Minimal Menu? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So....I updated my Manjaro to Plasma 6. Any chance that Minimal Menu (or something similar) exists?

I was not happy to find it gone. It's been a part of my system for so long that I honestly just forgot it wasn't default.

Now it doesn't even show up in the widget search and I'm honestly not sure I can live without it, largely because I can choose to centre it in the display on launch rather than having to choose either a) full-screen or b) right above the icon.

I can't even describe how upsetting it was to reboot after the update....

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If you mean this, it looks like it hasn't been updated for 6 years.

I would not hold my breath on a fix coming for plasma 6 if it indeed doesn't work.

It's forked from simple menu which looks to be maintained, and should be similar?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I had tried Simple Menu as well. It suffers from the "can't centre it in the display" thing for me. And it says "unsupported" when I try to launch it as well. At least hopefully it has the possibility of being updated.

In the meantime...ugh. Thanks anyway. Might be time to start looking elsewhere design-wise, but I can't stand Gnome or its derivatives. literally the only thing I don't like from KDE is it's application launchers. This really really sucks, personally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I personally use the fullscreen dashboard launcher, but I also use krunner for a lot.

It's probably the most minimalistic option, just pops up a tiny text field that you type things into and it will then suggest apps, actions, files, commands etc.

The default keybind is alt+space but I bind it to meta+space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah. I use Krunner quite a bit myself. I have two monitors, so if I have a program running on one and I need to do something like bring up a browser or something in the other one, I just move the move to the right and start typing. It's great. Maybe I need to get into the habit of using it for my main launcher...

In the meantime I found the Andromeda Launcher, which at least allows me to centre it. It's a little gaudy for my taste, but oh well. It'll do until I apparently teach myself to fork Minimal Menu.