When I right-click on the Whisker Menu, the "Edit Applications" option is greyed out. Is there any way I can enable the option and edit the applications in Whisker Menu?
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MenuLibre is a menu editor that is used for the option in Whisker Menu.
In other words, the "Edit Applications" option is greyed out because no compatible menu editor is being installed to the system. You will have to install the menu editor separately.
sudo apt-get install menulibre
After the installation, the "Edit Applications" option is now enabled in Whisker Menu. There are several other ways to run the menu editor:
- Open Whisker Menu, type "menu" in the search box and look for Menu Editor, or
- Run
menulibrein Application Launcher or Terminal, or - In Xfce, open Settings, type "menu" in the search box and look for Menu Editor
MenuLibre is independent of desktop environment in use, which means no additional dependencies. Therefore, users are less likely to notice if the dependent packages were installed as it is.
Why not by default: Apparently, MenuLibre and Whisker Menu are not related to each other in terms of their dependencies. Neither mentioned as 'suggested' nor 'recommended' packages.
Hence the reason why some users may encounter the said issue in the question. And no, it is not a dumb question. Just lack of explanations to end-users.