How to set the super key on XFCE to open the whisker menu

Do not do this on the ArcoLinux iso (Xfce, Openbox and i3) Setting the keyboard shortcutwill cause conflict in Openbox Great tip forArcoLinuxDArcoLinuxB We have left out the keyboard shortcut to open the (whisker) menu when pressing the super (windows) key because of...

How to switch your Openbox menu to the Openbox Minimal menu

Thanks to the fact that we have created ArcoLinuxB Openbox Minimal we now have a second kind of menu. A minimal one. Once you know your way around the system and know where all the core files are for openbox, you can access them via Thunar and edit them. No need for a...

Changing the panels of xfce the easy way

The best way is to just follow what I do in this video. Just know that this application is called xfce4-panel-profiles. Starting from 18.10 the newer package and its configuration are already installed. If you want to keep rolling and do not do a clean install then...

How to hide applications in your Xfce menu

We open the menulibre applications via the whiskermenu and select the applications we do not want to see and choose hide from menu’s. That is it. A file is being created in ~/.local/share/applications as you can see in the...

Add applications menu back in xfce context menu

When you right-mouse click on the desktop in Xfce you get a menu – let us call it the context-menu. Normally Xfce has at the very end a link to the applications. We decided to get rid of this menu because of the lesser quality of the icons. If you like to get it...

Add menu’s to your xfce menu for online applications

There are a lot of applications that are hosted online. Netflix.com Pixlr.com Google drive Onedrive Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint online Google Calendar Google Contacts Google Mail and so many more If you want to have a menu in your Xfce menu to those websites...

How to make a static and manual menu in openbox

ArcoLinux has a generated menu out of the box. Any application, that you install or uninstall, will show up or disappear from the menu. The menu is generated with the tool obmenu-generator. What if you wanted to have the original menu.xml back that comes with openbox...

How to change the menu in openbox with obmenu-generator

ArcoLinux has a generated menu out of the box. The advantage is that any installed or uninstalled will immediately have effect on your menu. No manual editing required. You can even have a menu with icons if you want to. What if you want to change the menu from...