Right-click Pinchy and his menu opens beside him — always beside him, however you arranged it. The grid button at the top of the menu, next to the ✕, opens Customize: the menu turns into a blueprint and you lay it out the way you want it.
What to ask for
- “How do I put a clock in your menu?” He tells you where Customize is and what to add.
- “Where did Cloud storage go in your menu?” He tells you it is one click away under “Add something…”.
- “Can you rearrange your menu for me?” He cannot: the layout is yours alone. He tells you how to do it.
What you can do there
- Move: drag anything to another place on the grid. The rest steps aside.
- Resize: select it and drag its corner. A row can become half a row, a small icon tile, or a big tile two rows high.
- Remove: select it and press its ✕ (or Delete). It stays in the list, one click to put back.
- Add: “Add something…” lists everything the menu can hold. Type to search.
- Text, Icon + text, Icons: how the menu is labelled. Icons turns a menu of rows into a grid of tiles; point at a tile to see its name.
- Presets: a few ready menus to start from — Pinchy’s own menu (the one he came with) is the first. Or Start from blank and add only what you want.
- Under his name: pick what shows under Pinchy’s name at the top — plan usage (as he came), a clock, a timer, what he is doing, CPU and memory, the weather, or nothing.
- Size: Small, Normal or Large. It stays the next time you open the menu.
- Turn it: drag in the square to tilt the menu in 3D, Roll turns it. Straighten puts it back flat.
- Undo (Ctrl+Z), Cancel (Esc), Done. Nothing is saved until Done.
- The rows it starts with: Talk to me, Workspace, Agents, Specialists, Settings, Help, his behaviour, his tricks, Call a helper, Pause, Quit.
- More rows: Help with selected text, Teach me, Artifacts, Cloud storage, Pinchy’s desk, Notifications, Swarms, Extensions, Pinchy’s computer.
- A page of Settings in one click: Model & effort, Themes, Shortcuts, Memory, Telegram & chat apps, Phone, Hey Pinchy.
- Things he does at once: check for updates, sync with the away server, open the memory folder.
- One trick or one behaviour as its own tile: Backflip, Dance, Wander, Follow, Nap and the others.
- Widgets, by group in “Add something…”:
- Time: a clock, a timer (one click starts it, Pinchy tells you when it is done), a stopwatch, this month, a world clock, a countdown to a day.
- Pinchy: what he is doing, your agents at a glance, the last notification, your away server, the tricks he has learned, plan usage.
- This computer: battery, online or offline, CPU and memory, disk space.
- Asks & work: “Ask Pinchy…” (type and press Enter: it goes to his chat as your message), “Say to Pinchy” (a sentence you saved, one click), a note to yourself, a switch for a setting, the next agent wake-up, the last Workspace job, what your agents used today, the weather for your city.
- Lines and headings to keep groups apart.
How it works
- Rows for things you switched on (What Pinchy did, Focus, Explain part of the screen, Pinchy’s desk) only show while that thing is on. A row that does not show leaves no gap.
- What an extension adds to the menu appears in the “Extension entries” place.
- The bell and the usage bars sit at the top of the menu. Put Notifications or the usage widget into the grid and they move there.
- A helper Pinchy has the same menu, without the rows that belong to Pinchy himself.
Settings
- The menu has no page in the Settings window: it is changed on the menu itself, with the grid button.
- Rows that belong to a feature follow that feature’s own switch, for example Settings → Pinchy → Focus mode.
Limits
- The layout is yours alone: Pinchy, agents, extensions and the phone cannot change it.
- The menu is six columns wide. A row or tile can be two rows high at most; widgets up to five.
- A widget that has nothing to show says so (“no battery”, “none set up”) instead of a number. CPU, disk, the weather and the other live ones refresh while the menu is open, never in the background.
- The weather comes from Open-Meteo for the city you type; the rest stays on this computer.
- A menu turned in 3D (tilted with the square) is drawn a little softer than a flat one; Small, Normal and Large stay as sharp as the rest of Pinchy. Straighten makes it flat again.
- On a screen with fractional scaling (for example 175 %) in a Wayland session, KDE may stretch Pinchy and his menu and they look soft there. In KDE’s Display settings, “Legacy applications (X11): Apply scaling themselves” makes them sharp on that screen.
- The menu closes by itself after a few seconds without the mouse on it. While you customize it stays open.
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