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xfce start button
Posted: 18. Dec 2015, 16:29
by jpg153
Hi all,
I am still trying to find out which file I need to modify to change the entries under the start button...
xfce help is of no help..
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/4 ... ationsmenu
Any hint which file to edit and where it is located?
Thanks in advance.
Re: xfce start button
Posted: 18. Dec 2015, 16:48
by ElderDryas
jpg153 wrote:I am still trying to find out which file I need to modify to change the entries under the start button...
If by Start Button you mean the applications menu (in the upper left, on the panel), then I'd start here:
https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu
Re: xfce start button
Posted: 18. Dec 2015, 16:52
by ChuangTzu
Been awhile since I used Xfce, is there a menu editor entry under system or settings? In the past, you had to manually edit .desktop files to change the menu, pretty easy.
If not here are a few links that worked in the past:
https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... nu-621543/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... nu-885263/
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=6425
Edit: ElderDryas we replied almost at the same time...
Re: xfce start button
Posted: 18. Dec 2015, 17:01
by ElderDryas
ChuangTzu wrote:...is there a menu editor entry under system or settings?
I seem to dimly remember a gui for menu editing...one the barely worked, sometimes, in some distros. The old-fashioned, hand edited way noted above always worked much better
Most xfce distros nowadays appear to be moving to Whisker Menu and it's associated menu editing gui (forgot the name). From my limited experience (on Xubuntu), it works fairly well, not that I'm a big fan of the Whisker Menu.
I'll be interested to see what slack/salix 14.2 with XFCE 4.12 includes.
EDIT:
ChuangTzu wrote:Edit: ElderDryas we replied almost at the same time...
Great Minds and all that.
Re: xfce start button
Posted: 18. Dec 2015, 17:05
by ChuangTzu
ElderDryas wrote:not that I'm a big fan of the Whisker Menu.
Agreed, then again I prefer Fluxbox and its menu system, so I am biased.
Feels strange not getting a menu with right click or a key.
4.12 does have some nice improvements, but also losing more of its leanness with each update, not that much lighter than Gnome shell anymore. If they go full GTK3 it will be even heavier. But thats another discussion.
Re: xfce start button
Posted: 18. Dec 2015, 19:00
by zAchAry
jpg153 wrote:Any hint which file to edit and where it is located?
Try
menulibre.
ChuangTzu wrote:4.12 does have some nice improvements, but also losing more of its leanness with each update, not that much lighter than Gnome shell anymore. If they go full GTK3 it will be even heavier. But thats another discussion.
I agree, and it is disturbing.
Re: xfce start button
Posted: 18. Dec 2015, 21:38
by ChuangTzu
Ah, forgot all about that program...its a good one!
Re: xfce start button
Posted: 18. Dec 2015, 22:08
by gapan
mozo, the menu editor for MATE should work just fine under xfce too I think.
Re: xfce start button
Posted: 19. Dec 2015, 09:49
by jpg153
Hi guys,
thanks for that lot of input.
I will give it a try soon and report back.
Mozo did not work. It creates a lot of error messages and does not allow to mofify existing entries..
Re: xfce start button
Posted: 20. Dec 2015, 23:16
by jpg153
Hi,
menulibre
did the job!
Thanks.