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[Solved] How to theme the Whisker Menu to look more like a wingpanel?

Is there a way to theme the whisker menu to look more like eOS wingpanel:

Or Evolve OS's Budgie Menu:

Thanks,

Dennis

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Re: [Solved] How to theme the Whisker Menu to look more like a wingpanel?

If you are referring to the colours, you can theme it using gtk hacks. See: https://gottcode.wordpress.com/2013/11/ … sker-menu/.

You can get the categories in the left-hand side via the plugin's Properties->Behaviour->"Position categories next to panel button". To move the search textbox to the top of the plugin, "Position search entry next to panel button" (on the same properties tab).

On the Commands tab, you can specify which of the settings, lock screen, switch users, and logout buttons.

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deleted3

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Re: [Solved] How to theme the Whisker Menu to look more like a wingpanel?

That did the trick:

Not Perfect, but much better. Oddly, Xubuntu 14.04 LTS did not have the "Position categories next to panel button."

Nevertheless, I can live with this much better.

Thanks!

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Re: [Solved] How to theme the Whisker Menu to look more like a wingpanel?

So, I am only posting this in case anyone else runs into this. It seems to get that "position categories" setting in Xubuntu, you need to add the whisker menu repo...just like in mint. After adding the repo, updating, installing whisker menu, logging out and back in those settings appeared. The full instructions can be found here:

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1721

Next stop rounded corners

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Re: [Solved] How to theme the Whisker Menu to look more like a wingpanel?

So, I am only posting this in case anyone else runs into this. It seems to get that "position categories" setting in Xubuntu, you need to add the whisker menu repo...just like in mint. After adding the repo, updating, installing whisker menu, logging out and back in those settings appeared. The full instructions can be found here:

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1721

Next stop rounded corners

Hm, that old tutorial looks familiar.

Don't know about rounded corners but I've played a little with the theme and Whisker.
Had one before that worked on 1.4.0 but had to make some changes for 1.5.0 and 1.5.1.

Saved a few images to be used as pixmap.
~/hover.png

~/background.png

Here is something to add to ~/.gtkrc-2.0

#Whisker Menu Theme
pixmap_path "$HOME"
style "darkback"
    {
          engine "pixmap"
            {         
                   image
                   {
                            function =  SHADOW
                            file = "background.png"
                            border = {0, 0, 0, 0}
                            stretch                 = FALSE
                    }
                    image
                    {
                            function                = BOX
                            recolorable             = TRUE
                            state                   =PRELIGHT
                            file                    = "background.png"
                            border                  = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
                            stretch                 = FALSE
                    }
                    image
                    {
                            function                = BOX
                            recolorable             = TRUE
                            state                   = ACTIVE
                            file                    = "hover.png"
                            border                  = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
                            stretch                 = FALSE

                    }

            }

            bg[NORMAL] = "#404040"
            bg[ACTIVE] = "#606060"
            bg[PRELIGHT] = "#808080"
            fg[NORMAL] = "#ccc"
            fg[ACTIVE] = "#fff"
            fg[PRELIGHT] = "#fff"
            fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#fff"

    }
widget "whiskermenu-window*" style "darkback"

style "darktree"
{
   base[NORMAL] = "#404040"
   base[ACTIVE] = "#606060"
   text[NORMAL] = "#ccc"
   text[ACTIVE] = "#fff"
  	engine "murrine" {
		gradient_shades	= { 1.25, 1.1, 0.9, 0.95 }

	}
}
widget "whiskermenu-window*TreeView*" style "darktree"

style "darkentry"
{
base[NORMAL] = "#404040"
   base[ACTIVE] = "#606060"
   text[NORMAL] = "#ccc"
   text[ACTIVE] = "#fff"
engine "murrine" {
             gradient_shades	= { 1.25, 1.1, 0.9, 0.95 }
                                   }
}
widget "whiskermenu-window*GtkEntry*" style "darkentry"

widget "whiskermenu-window*Scrollbar*" style "darktree"

Works preety well on some themes. Shadow and Adwaita so far.

  *Images are from some random website. Most probably, because I was too lazy to make my own patterns.

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Re: [Solved] How to theme the Whisker Menu to look more like a wingpanel?

Hm, that old tutorial looks familiar.

And in case no one else has done so, thank you for creating a tutorial for us Mint (and, of course, Xfce) users! Even if I don't use it, myself, it looks like you put some effort into it.

I wonder how many people would use it if they knew about it but simply aren't aware of its existence?

Regards,
MDM

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Re: [Solved] How to theme the Whisker Menu to look more like a wingpanel?

Hm, that old tutorial looks familiar.

And in case no one else has done so, thank you for creating a tutorial for us Mint (and, of course, Xfce) users! Even if I don't use it, myself, it looks like you put some effort into it.

I wonder how many people would use it if they knew about it but simply aren't aware of its existence?

Regards,
MDM

Ah, I thought no one reads Mint's community posts. I was quite surprised to see it  here.
Xfce is very light DE, that outperforms other DE's, and yet offers a lot of options to customize it the way you want.
Can't wait to see when it get's full GTK3 support. Gtk3 themes are much better looking than the ones in Gtk2. It will look as good as Cinnamon.

As for the Whisker Menu I've also found out that the text on a button that launches the menu could be customized through Properties with the pango markup language.
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1925
Might be usefull for someone, reading this forum. Or in case you decide to use Xfce.

Regards,
Misko

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