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I've been trying Linux Mint Cinnamon, but un into a few problems with the main menu:
1. It's a single menu. I need to cut down on scrolling, so I'd much prefer the classic 3 menus.
2. I've tried editing it in Menu Editor/Alacarte, but every time I uncheck an item to hide it, move on to the next section, and then move back, I see that Menu Editor/Alacarte has rechecked that item.
I previously tried Fedora, and while I wasn't able to replace the menu, I was able to install other menu apps. So that's something.
Distribution: Mainly Devuan, antiX, & Void, with Tiny Core, Fatdog, & BSD thrown in.
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All menus are a file somewhere on your system, so just find the file & add what you want - the trick is finding what it is called, & where it is located.
As per your problem, maybe try -
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Right click on Menu, then Configure, then button [Menu] and finally button [Open the menu editor].
Mint may have alternative menus for Cinnamon, so have a look in the package manager.
The comment #2 is, I believe, misleading. Cinnamon, like Mate and Gnome, compiles the configuration files with dconf, so you can't just edit them you have to extract them, edit them, and then re-compile them. That's why you get provided with graphical tools for the job and there's not much guidance around for how to do it manually.
Xfce has a choice of two menus, traditional and Whisker, and you can edit them using a file in ~/.config/menus/. There's documentation the best is probably https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xfce
Xfce has a choice of two menus, traditional and Whisker, and you can edit them using a file in ~/.config/menus/. There's documentation — the best is probably https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xfce
I ended up installing Fedora because I couldn't get the wifi working on Mint.
Using Gnome Classic in Fedora, I have trouble with its default menu, and with font sizes, and with scrollbars. I tried Cinnamon, still had trouble with font sizes and didn't check everything else. I tried Mate, had a much better main menu, and better font sizes, but couldn't block as much animation, or get usable scrollbars. Also parts of Firefox stopped working. I tried Budgie, but I can't use dark themes, and the light themes aren't working yet.
In general, the answer to any question in the form of "What desktop allows users to customize X?" is KDE Plasma. KDE is the most user customizable desktop out there and it's designed to be just that.
If KDE Plasma is not your cup of tea, take a look in /usr/share/applications/ and you'll probably see a bunch of familiar app names. Those are files for menuitems. You can add your own from scratch or based on existing ones in /usr/local/share/applications/ that should automatically appear via the xdg system.
I tried Kde couple months ago. It was full of animation. It gave me an awful migraine, and I couldn't get through the animation to find ways to disable the animation. Apparently the compositor settings *can* disable at least some of the animation.
In Cinnamon, Gnome 3 Classic, etc. there are a couple settings to disable effects, disable cursor blinking, etc. which can stop most of the animation.
I tried Kde couple months ago. It was full of animation. It gave me an awful migraine, and I couldn't get through the animation to find ways to disable the animation. Apparently the compositor settings *can* disable at least some of the animation.
Disabling that nonsense is among the first steps I take on a virgin login.
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