XFCE - how to edit menu ?

jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 05:53:29 UTC 2012


Da Rock <freebsd-questions <at> herveybayaustralia.com.au> writes:

> ... 
> > What I found is you start by right clicking on the application menu 
> > and show properties where you can change from default to custom file 
> > menu - ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu matches the default and 
> > is an xml file.
> > ...
> > Look in ~/.local/share/applications and /usr/local/share/applications 
> > for the *.desktop files - I believe the home dir versions override the 
> > /usr ones but haven't looked at what gets overwritten by reinstall etc.

Yes, I figured it out.
http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu 

> You can also use alacarte. Should be in ports, you then just right click 
> to edit the menu.
> ,,,

I used to use it under Gnome.
But under Xfce, I can not bring myself to use it due to its 1537 dependencies.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=alacarte&stype=all

Thanks guys.
jb






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