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| howto:customize-menu [2013/12/03 20:52] – [Unanswered] ammo | howto:customize-menu [2015/02/04 10:41] – ochosi |
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| This page describes how to customize the menu, using Xfdesktop **4.5 or higher**. For earlier versions you can use the libxfce4menu GUI. | This page describes how to customize the menu, using Xfdesktop **4.5 or higher**. For earlier versions you can use the libxfce4menu GUI. |
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| A GNU-licensed graphical menu editor for LXDE, [[http://lxmed.sourceforge.net|LXMenuEditor]], also works for XFCE, as of XFCE 4.8.0 and LXMenuEditor 20110523. | A GNU-licensed graphical menu editor for LXDE, [[http://lxmed.sourceforge.net|LXMenuEditor]], also works for Xfce, as of Xfce 4.8.0 and LXMenuEditor 20110523. [[https://launchpad.net/menulibre|MenuLibre]] is another freedesktop.org standard-compliant editor that works well with Xfce. |
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| ===== What xfdesktop installs ===== | ===== What xfdesktop installs ===== |
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| * Where do i find a log or anything like that, actually giving me a clue other than simply empty space in the menu? | * Where do i find a log or anything like that, actually giving me a clue other than simply empty space in the menu? |
| | View /usr/share/applications, ~/.local/share/applications, etc. with Thunar. You should see a plain .desktop file listed for the blank entry, between the clickable icons with fancy names. |
| * I run Jaunty and need to make the menu to be multi-level, which, in previous versions I believe, could be achieved by editing '///etc/X11/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml//' and replace //style="simple"// with //style="multilevel"// in the //<include>//. How do I do this in Jaunty? I need this because I have certain applications under Wine which have very many start-menu entries and they are all merged into one menulevel, which is really annoying to navigate thru. Please help ... | * I run Jaunty and need to make the menu to be multi-level, which, in previous versions I believe, could be achieved by editing '///etc/X11/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml//' and replace //style="simple"// with //style="multilevel"// in the //<include>//. How do I do this in Jaunty? I need this because I have certain applications under Wine which have very many start-menu entries and they are all merged into one menulevel, which is really annoying to navigate thru. Please help ... |
| See the part above about creating Categories. | See http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/477258-flat-menu-xfce.html |