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Edit Menu
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:39 pm
by Linux.1x
LXDE is very simple and fast but How I can Edit Menu (Like Microsoft Windows Start Menu) ?
I want do this in graphical and simple way.
Re: Edit Menu
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:56 pm
by Rex Bouwense
Welcome to the LXDE forum. Remember Linux is not Windows. However here is an easy "how to" for changing your main menu.
http://lxlinux.com/#9
Re: Edit Menu
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 12:36 am
by seppalta
http://lxlinux.com/#9 is directions for editing menu
categories. I would guess you are only interested in adding or removing applications, which is a much easier process. Applications in most Linux menus correspond to a
.desktop file located in a directory regularly checked by the computer. So to remove a menu item, you need to find its associated .desktop file and delete it. For most apps this file will be in
/usr/share/applications or
/usr/local/share/applications. To add an app you need to create a .desktop file for that app and put it in one of the afore mentioned directories. The recipe for using a text editor to create a .desktop file is given in
http://lxlinux.com/#11. There is also an excellent tool, named
lxmed, that can be installed on any LXDE desktop, which will guide you through this process. See
http://lxlinux.com/#8 for the story for lxmed, which does require that
java be installed.