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Want to ignore .desktops and have custom menu.

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:27 pm
by deggy
Hi,

I want to have lxlauncher show a custom application set, rather then the standard /usr/share/applications contents.

Is there a way that I can make lxlauncher ignore the standard freedesktop structures and use a custom folder to look for its .desktop entries?

Thanks

Dan

Re: Want to ignore .desktops and have custom menu.

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:22 pm
by Marty Jack
Put your own .menu file in ~/.config/menus, or if you want it system wide, overwrite the menu file in /etc/xdg/menus with whatever you want. You don't have to call <DefaultAppDirs> if you don't want to.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-s ... atest.html

and good luck to you.

Re: Want to ignore .desktops and have custom menu.

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:52 pm
by deggy
That's a read and a half!! Thanks for the instant gratification and saving me trawling through it!!!

Still, at least freedesktop.org has documentation I suppose.