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# Whisker Menu 2.5 Released With Xfce 4.16 Support [PPA Available]
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/whisker-menu-2-5-release/
- Published: 2020-12-28T13:06:26.000Z
- Updated: 2020-12-28T13:06:28.000Z
- Author: Abhishek Prakash
- Tags: Application Releases, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15

[Xfce 4.16 was released](https://news.itsfoss.com/xfce-4-16-release/?ref=itsfoss.com) a few days ago. Since it uses GTK 3 and has some new functions, third-party applications like Whisker Menu has to refactor their code for the Xfce 4.16 code.

[Whisker Menu](https://gottcode.org/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/?ref=itsfoss.com#about) is an application launcher for [Xfce desktop environment](https://www.xfce.org/?ref=itsfoss.com). It is not part of the Xfce package itself. It’s one of the additional tools that you can use to customize Xfce desktop.

Whisker Menu has [released version 2.5.0](https://gottcode.org/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/?ref=itsfoss.com#releasenotes) with Xfce 4.16 support among several other changes. Let’s see what has changed here.

## Whisker Menu 2.5.0: What’s new?

Here are the highlights of this release:

- Add option to show all applications by default
- Rearrange sidebar buttons to match default category
- Show panel button title as tooltip in icon-only mode
- Always sort top-level categories
- Vertically center contents of header
- New Xfce action icons
- New desktop ids for default programs
- Hide menu on focus out
- Use new Xfce functions
- Updated translations for several languages

## Installing Whisker Menu 2.5 on Ubuntu-based Linux distributions

Good news for the users of Ubuntu-based distributions is that an [official PPA](https://launchpad.net/~gottcode/+archive/ubuntu/gcppa?ref=itsfoss.com) is available. With this, you can easily install the latest stable release of Whisker Menu. If you are new to it, please learn more on the [concept of PPA in Ubuntu](https://itsfoss.com/ppa-guide/).

Again, Whisker Menu is for Xfce desktop only. So please make sure that you are using Xfce desktop environment.

Open a terminal and use the following command to add the PPA repository:

```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gottcode/gcppa
```

Ubuntu automatically refreshes the repository list but you may need to do it manually on some other distributions.

```
sudo apt update
```

Now run the following command to install Whisker Menu 2.5:

```
sudo apt install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
```

If you already had Whisker Menu installed, it should update the existing version.

### Uninstall Whisker Menu 2.5:

To remove the application installed via the PPA, use the following commands one by one:

```
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:gottcode/gcppa
```

I hope you have some sort of application launcher on your system. You may remove it this way then:

```
sudo apt remove xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
```

### What about other distributions?

The new version should be available in the AUR for Arch Linux users. Please check if there are third-party repositories for Whisker Menu 2.5 for Fedora Linux.

Stay tuned for more Linux news.