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Looks like a bug, yes, because if you have a folder selected it opens it in terminal with no problem.
(At least PCManFM 0.5.1)

franklinspice wrote:I have faced same problem to customize the menu, I hope this document can help you a bit

What the hell?
This won't help a bit.

You'll have to edit per-user menu configuration file. Usually, it resides is in ~/.config/menus, under the name of "lxde-applications.menu". It should be something like (if empty, just copy & paste the following text) <!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN" &...

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I've made some ugly hack to implement adding/deleting submenus/launchers from menus, to conform (to some extent) to this . The main code is as follows: //some constants const static char * header = "<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC \"-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN\" \"http://www.freedeskt...

Here it says it only uses PCManFM and LXAppearance from LXDE.

You could try with Remastersys http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/debian.html.

First create .desktop file with LXShortcut http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXShortCut . Invoke it (in terminal) with "lxshortcut -o wantedshortcutname.desktop" - replace "wantedshortcutname" with desired filename ie "seamonkey". A window should pop up; GUI is quite selfexlpanat...

Try changing the Exec command to "python /home/knoppix/somescript.py" and copying the resulting *.desktop file to /home/knoppix/.config/autostart.