Re: [newbie] Modifying the KDE menu

[Margot]

Lanman wrote:
Hi Gang. I've been trying to find out how to permanently modify the 
KDE3.2 and 3.3 menus and I'm not getting anywhere.

For instance, if I add/delete entries in the KDE menu using menudrake, 
(selecting the "System Menu" option), those changes are saved, however, 
as soon as I re-open menudrake, it reloads the default menu and I have 
to start all over again.

KDE also provides it's own menu editor (kmenu) in KControl, but it does 
the same thing, except it does it only for the current user. It also 
reloads the default menu when it's launched again.

On the other hand, KDE's kiosktool is a bit more radical than I'd prefer 
 to use.

Can someone shed a bit of light on this? I haven't been able to find a 
way to make my menu changes permanent or in other words how to make my 
revised menu the default for all users, even after I re-start menudrake.

Any help would be appreciated, since I can't seem to find anything on 
Google that helps.

Did you remember to run "update-menus -v" as root, after installing 
or uninstalling software and before running menudrake? Or, 
"update-menus -n" if you're not interested in seeing the output, but 
as you're having problems the "-v" option would probably be more 
useful.

Also, in menudrake, select Menu Style and choose the "Original 
menus" (the bottom option on the list) - I've never managed to get 
any of the other styles to work!

Or, for a more radical solution, abandon KDE, use Xfce instead, and 
add Trigger Launchers to the panel for the applications that you 
need to use regularly.
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Margot
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