applet-window-appmenu VS vala-panel-appmenu

Hi all, At the moment I am giving tumbleweed another go. I am installing all my app- even though I am using the rpm versions (I come from Kubuntu). Previously, with psifidotos' appMenu, https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu, I could use VScode with the global menu. However, now it seems to not be working any longer. Any ideas what might be going on?

The player widget is mediacontroller_plus and the global menu is applet-window-appmenu

If it doesn't work, don't uninstall the above packages and try this applet (it is easier to install it from the KDE store).

My approach: $ git clone https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu.git to my ~/Downloads and run install.sh script

You could try this widget instead: https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu

Last time I used a global menu I used this applet https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu to get it working with GTK apps. Worked way better than the default applets.

I don't know ow the ins and outs of fedora and running scripts from the internet can end badly. If you're ok with that risk I'd look at the installation.md file. Near the bottom are directions for fedora.

Hey guys, new linux user here coming from windows. I have installed fedora and I am following a tutorial and it is asking me to install this. https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu

Hi, I'm stuck trying to install the XFCE global menu. I tried every different coprs things to no avail, I even tried building it from the github repo, but it gets stuck at "meson.build:77:0: ERROR: Dependency "libxfce4panel-2.0" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake" (libxfce4panel is installed) and setting the prefix to /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel like the guide told me didn't work

it seems like appmenu-gtk-module was a subproject of vala and has been long abandoned... or at least nothing has changed for over 2 years... https://github.com/rilian-la-te/vala-panel-appmenu/tree/master/subprojects/appmenu-gtk-module

Also remember this part: https://github.com/rilian-la-te/vala-panel-appmenu/blob/master/subprojects/appmenu-gtk-module/README.md

vala-panel-appmenu: https://github.com/rilian-la-te/vala-panel-appmenu

For Chromium-based browsers, the guide suggests also installing libdbusmenu-glib, libdbusmenu-gtk3, libdbusmenu-gtk2. appmenu-qt4 is no longer available and Qt5 will work out of the box.

Check out https://github.com/rilian-la-te/vala-panel-appmenu - that's what I use Depends on your distro, there's a really nice AUR package, but yeah the Readme has instructions for different distros. I don't know if there are ready made packages for other distros or if you have to compile from source.

You have to install this for the global menu to work in xfce.