Can you get the "zorin lite menu" on manjaro xfce?

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Yesterday I used a live usb of “zorin os lite” and saw that it doesn’t use the “Whisker menu”,they use something called “zorin lite menu” or something like that,
can I install it on manjaro xfce,
if yes,how can I do it?
thank you in advance,
have a nice day and sorry if this has been addressed before.

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What is it that this Zorin menu has to offer to you over the standard xfce menu in Manjaro?

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Could you link a picture? I only find ones of what seems to be a Whisker menu with the ZorinOS theme.

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The xfce4-zorinmenulite-plugin is from a PPA

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Can you please tell me how to install it?
I thought PPAs are an Ubuntu thing.

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Found it.
You still have to do this yourself sorta… but

cd ~
mkdir .builds
cd .builds
nano PKGBUILD

Now put the following in the PKGBUILD and save/exit with Ctrl+X

# cscs

pkgname=xfce4-zorin-menu-lite
pkgver=1.1.2
pkgrel=0
pkgdesc='Zorin lite XFCE menu'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url='https://launchpad.net/~azorin/+ppa-packages'
license=('GPL2')
depends=('xfce4-panel')
makedepends=('exo' 'garcon')
provides=('xfce4-zorin-menu-lite')
source=("http://ppa.launchpad.net/zorinos/stable/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xfce4-zorinmenulite-plugin/xfce4-zorinmenulite-plugin_${pkgver}.tar.xz")
sha512sums=('c62d8f38b6c1921749f9744461098bfa7769e1511335ce67a60982b1cd4105974b16f833dbab15c45972f03ccf7ac189a2f25f7722ae443cd0f906b79711996a')

prepare() {
    tar -xf "xfce4-zorinmenulite-plugin_${pkgver}.tar.xz"
	cd "xfce4-zorinmenulite-plugin"
	mkdir build
}

build() {
	cd "xfce4-zorinmenulite-plugin/build"
	cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
}

package() {
	cd "xfce4-zorinmenulite-plugin/build"
	make
    make install DESTDIR="${pkgdir}"
}

Then just enter this command

makepkg -sric

… and let me know :woman_shrugging:
(it looked ok here … but I am not using xfce)

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IT WORKED!
Thank you

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Glad it did. Enjoy your menu. :slight_smile:

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thanks!

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It worked as I said but the problem is,it wasn’t made for manjaro so I can’t customise it and I am not sure if there is a solution.

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I think most of the config files you will have to edit manually are mentioned here:

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What exactly are you referring to ?

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I am trying to change the opacity of the menu,
whisker menu has a setting for this but it doesn’t affect the application tree view background,
so I thought maybe the zorin one has it

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No idea about their menu …
I was wondering if there were themes or plugins for that plugin or something.
(I cant seem to find anything in their repo besides … maybe something like ‘zorin-appearnce’)
If it simply does or doesnt have some feature … thats up to the zorin folks I guess.

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Ok thanks,
sorry if this is off-topic but do you know of any way to make the full background of the whisker menu(including the app tree view) transparent?

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Looks like the esiest way might be using compiz.
And I dont really like compiz.
Up to you I guess. Happy hunting.

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thanks

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