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xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin - Whisker Menu
Written by Graeme Gott, this plugin is a menu that provides access to favorites, recently used, and searching installed applications.
Usage
When you open the menu you are shown a list of applications you have marked as favorites. You can browse through all of your installed applications by clicking on the category buttons on the side. Whisker Menu also keeps a list applications that you've launched.
Favorites are easy to add and reorder. When browsing through your applications, right-click on any of them and select “Add to Favorites”. Simply drag and drop your favorites list to arrange them to suit your needs. You can remove them at any time from another right-click option.
You can also quickly find applications by entering a search term. The search field is focused when opening the menu, so you can just start typing. Application descriptions as well as names are searched, which allows you to find a program by using a general word.
Screenshots
Menu
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Options
Latest Release
- xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 2.10.1 released (2026/02/22 01:31)xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 2.10.1 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/2.10/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-2.10.1.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/2.10/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-2.10.1.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/2.10/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-2.10.1.tar.xz?sha256 What is xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin? ================================= An alternate menu for the Xfce desktop environment Website: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin Release notes for 2.10.1 ======================== - Fix meson to make minsize an optimized build - Bring settings dialog to front if already shown - Translation updates: Asturian, Esperanto, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean, Occitan (post 1500), Slovenian, Spanish, Thai
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