mxfb2025: Menus

[FullScale4Me]

I'm a little late to the party, so to speak. My old drive of MX 21 Virtual Box installs had failed last year. So I have no comparison.

Is this what the menu is supposed to look like on a fresh installation of MXFB 23.6 at 1024x768? I thought it was a good screen size that a typical FB user would have.



Did I get a corrupt download of the ISO? Mine doesn't look anything like the image in post #11 of this thread, esp the buttons on the left (look & number).

[Jerry3904]

It would be easier to tell (at least for me) if you used a full screen capture. Here's mine on my Trixie dev box with a 1440x900 display



Just to make sure you know about appfinder settings

[siamhie]

I don't use rofi but this is what I'm talking about when updating the menu file.

fb-menu.png

[Melber]

@FullScale4Me
You have the mx23 appfinder menu. It looks right to me.
The changes to appfinder in post #11 are mx25 only.

[FullScale4Me]

@FullScale4Me
You have the mx23 appfinder menu. It looks right to me.
The changes to appfinder in post #11 are mx25 only.

Thanks, that explains the button differences. I'm still a little surprised at the cut-off text on first install, I decided to go old school and looked at the Fluxbox manual.

The Root Menu is hidden by default and offers a quick and easy way to access many functions and settings.

Aha! So, I guess my expecting a normal menu from a menu button was a reach too far. My desire was to learn the basics of MXFB in time for the 25 release.

So .....my priority is getting most pending edits of my how-to documents done before MX25 hits. The Dual Boot one looks like a toddler drew on it - that many [of my] notes! Most of those update ideas come from watching user's struggles in 3 distro's forums.

[Melber]

@FullScale4Me
mxfb is a slightly different beast.

The mx logo button opens mxfb-appfinder, which is actually just a customised rofi window we set up as a replacement for the xfce whisker menu. It is preset to 20% screen width, which results in the cut off text at your extremely low res screen size. (Typical mxfb users aren't all running the system on a potato. ) You can adjust the width with appfinder settings (right click on the logo to open).

The root menu is a fluxbox native thing and not related to appfinder. We adjust the contents of the default root menu to our liking.

[siamhie]

The Root Menu is hidden by default and offers a quick and easy way to access many functions and settings.

Aha! So, I guess my expecting a normal menu from a menu button was a reach too far. My desire was to learn the basics of MXFB in time for the 25 release.

@FullScale4Me
Generally, you just right click anywhere on the desktop to access the root menu.
fluxbox users can add an entry to the fluxbox toolbar to access it's root menu, if they want to. (similar can be done using tint2)


*Users will edit the init file for this part of the magic.

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session.screen0.toolbar.button.homenu.label: Menu
session.screen0.toolbar.button.homenu.commands: RootMenu
session.screen0.toolbar.tools:	button.homenu, iconbar, systemtray, clock, workspacename

toolbar-menu.jpg

[AA BB]

Open the root menu (All Apps) and click on Update at the bottom. Does that fix it?

I've already tried this previously ...it does not fix the problem

[siamhie]

Open the root menu (All Apps) and click on Update at the bottom. Does that fix it?

I've already tried this previously ...it does not fix the problem

@AA BB What does your menu entry look like?
Root menu > Settings > Configure > Menus > Main. (Post it in code tags...the </> icon)

[dolphin_oracle]

When I rt-click on the screen background, the FB menu pops up, but items listed under ALL APPS sub-menu dont respond to mouse clicks

probably worth posting the

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$HOME/.fluxbox/submenus/full_menu

file.