Whisker Menu 2.9.0 released

I am always surprised when I make a feature release of Whisker Menu. The menu has been in a state I would consider done for many years, and yet somehow I eventually add features. Amusingly, I don’t know if I have used a single feature added to Whisker Menu. 😉

What’s New?

To the relief of many, I found a way to bring back edge resizing! 🎉 I had to come up with a hack to force the resizing, so it is a little choppy for me on X11. Nevertheless, it works again! And since I am using the same code for Wayland, it allows you to resize there as well. As the resize code doesn’t know where the window is in relation to the panel button, resizing works from all edges and will snap the window back to where it belongs when you are finished.

I don’t know if the other features are quite as exciting, but here are the highlights:

I added the ability to autostart applications. You can already do that in Xfce, but it isn’t quite as convenient as just right-clicking a launcher in Whisker Menu. This request was from many years ago, and I never could settle some issues. So I decided to just ignore them. 😉

I also added a fallback to the search page. If no applications are found when searching, it will show you all of your search actions and allow you to pass what you have searched to them. Obviously, this doesn’t work with regular expression search actions, but it does for the rest!

And I found a solution to another annoyance people had: Whisker Menu will now only select items when you move the mouse, not when the menu is shown. That way you don’t have to care where the mouse is when you open the menu from a keyboard shortcut. I did consider making it always select the first item when the menu is shown, but I wasn’t sure that would have been a popular solution.

Enjoy!

Downloads

Source tarball

SHA-256:
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SHA-1:
bc78dfced5630cc0c1ef2de78737732cb8505207