Starting applications

[LaQuirrELL]

openSUSE 11.0 formerly with KDE 3.5
LXDE new install

I used to start my applications via an icon on the desktop or see a listing of them when I hit that little button at the bottom left on the panel bar. Now, since I installed LXDE, some of my desktop icons do not work and I can't access my applications when I key the button for application menu at bottom left of my screen.
How do I fix this? Is there any documentation on this? Where would I go to find it?
As a note I can still start applications thru a termial.

[kgas]

If menu is not displayed you can kill the panel as given in this wiki and get your menu back.
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXPanel#Fix_emp ... in_LXPanel
To put your application launchers in the desktop copy the application files (* .desktop ) from /usr/share/applications directory to your desktop.

[Marty Jack]

If it is only one or two applications that don't appear, check for "OnlyShowIn" and "NotShowIn" in the .desktop file and make necessary adjustments.