From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 02:43:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48362106564A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 02:43:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@ShaneWare.Biz) Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28DA8FC0A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 02:43:24 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap4EAFUZWE/LevdH/2dsb2JhbABDtjGCCgEBBThBEAsYCRMDDwkDAgECAUUGDQEHAQGIA7lzkG8EpViCdg Received: from ppp247-71.static.internode.on.net (HELO leader.local) ([203.122.247.71]) by ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 08 Mar 2012 13:13:18 +1030 Message-ID: <4F581C66.8000909@ShaneWare.Biz> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:11:42 +1030 From: Shane Ambler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120213 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jb References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFCE - how to edit menu ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:43:25 -0000 On 04/03/2012 17:37, jb wrote: > Hi, > I find it annoying having same items listed in multiple menus, e.g. > > - Accessories - Bulk Rename > Orage Globaltime > Terminal > Thunar File Manager > Help > > - Office - Orage Globaltime > > - System - Bulk Rename > Terminal > Thunar File Manager > > - Applications Menu - Help > > How can I edit the menus ? > Also, how to rename Applications Menu to e.g. just Menu as it would better > reflect applications and system (utilities) components ? I started looking at this a while ago, this is incomplete but could get you started. I am sure there was a page in the xfce wiki about customising menus. 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. There is also some info that comes from the applications desktop files. I think the categories field links them to the matching category entries in the menu file. This is where newly installed apps just show up. 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. -- Shane Ambler FreeBSD (at) ShaneWare (dot) Biz http://ShaneWare.Biz