From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 04:49:06 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07529106566B for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 04:49:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C0A8FC0C for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 04:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7A95C28 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:02:29 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 070525C22 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:02:29 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F583904.5030000@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:43:48 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F581C66.8000909@ShaneWare.Biz> In-Reply-To: <4F581C66.8000909@ShaneWare.Biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: XFCE - how to edit menu ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:49:06 -0000 On 03/08/12 12:41, Shane Ambler wrote: > 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. You can also use alacarte. Should be in ports, you then just right click to edit the menu.