Kiwi Menu replaces the Activities button with a compact, macOS-inspired launcher that keeps your most common session actions one click away.
- macOS style panel button: Swaps the Activities label for a tidy icon-only trigger that blends into GNOME Shell.
- macOS style user switcher: Adds button to the panel with popup menu to switch between user sessions.
- Recent items submenu: Hover or click to browse recent files and folders with automatic section headers and quick launch support.
- Force Quit overlay: Launches the built-in xkill helper from the menu when an app misbehaves. Optionaly, can also close all apps in current workspace.
- Custom AppStore command: Add your distro specific App store shortcut
- Personalized Menu Item: Add one custom menu entry of your choice
- Adaptive logout label: Personalizes the log out entry with your full name when available.
- Curated session controls: Sleep, restart, shut down, lock, and log out entries mirror the macOS Apple menu workflow.
- Hide Activities: Hide activities button in top panel.
- Hide Power buttons: Hide Lock screen and Power buttons in Quick Settings
- Multilingual support: Fully translatable interface
Recommended to pair with Kiwi is not Apple.
- Recent Applications menu is cleared after log out. This is limitation of Gnome shell
Want to help translate Kiwi Menu to your language? See the translation guide for instructions.
Contributions and feature requests are welcome. This extension is designed to help macOS users feel at home on GNOME, so the main goal is a clean, minimal menu with familiar behavior. I try to avoid feature creep and large configuration surfaces to keep the project easy to maintain. If you have an idea that is more feature rich, I am happy to point you to similar projects where it may fit better.
Kiwi Menu is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. See LICENSE for details.