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KitchM

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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How To Reorder Items In Whisker Menu Sections

I was looking for a program I recently installed and could not find it alphabetically under Accessories.  It took me a while to realize that it appeared out of order at the bottom of the list.

I also noticed the that whole section had lost aphabetization.

How can the user reorder the list correctly?

Thanks.

KitchM

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: How To Reorder Items In Whisker Menu Sections

@Toz, are you available to help with this?

Thanks.

ToZ

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Re: How To Reorder Items In Whisker Menu Sections

Which version of the whiskermenu are you using?

Assuming a newer version, can you post back:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv | grep $(xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv | grep whiskermenu | awk '{print $1}')

Maybe also create a test account and see if the same issue exists there.

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KitchM

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Re: How To Reorder Items In Whisker Menu Sections

Sorry, my mistake.  Debian 12 with Xfce 4.18.  (Don't want to go to SID.)

$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv | grep $(xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -lv | grep whiskermenu | awk '{print $1}')
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERNS [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.

Last edited by KitchM (2025-04-04 23:58:51)

ToZ

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Re: How To Reorder Items In Whisker Menu Sections

Then you should have a whiskermenu-X.rc file somewhere in ~/.config/xfce4/panel. Can you post back the contents of that file?

Also, the whiskermenu version can be obtained by running:

apt-cache policy xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

Have you tried a test user account?

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Re: How To Reorder Items In Whisker Menu Sections

It doesn't appear your using whiskermenu but the applications menu. Are you using a custom menu file?

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KitchM

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Re: How To Reorder Items In Whisker Menu Sections

xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin:
  Installed: 2.7.2-1
  Candidate: 2.7.2-1
  Version table:
*** 2.7.2-1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Added later 22 h 20 min 33 s:

It doesn't appear your using whiskermenu but the applications menu. Are you using a custom menu file?

Please explain the difference.

Thank you.