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…

  • MentalEdge
    3•1 month ago

    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?

    • Adderbox76OPEnglish
      4•1 month ago

      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.

      • MentalEdge
        1•1 month ago

        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.

        • Adderbox76OPEnglish
          2•1 month 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.