On mer, 2009-05-27 at 00:37 +0200, arne anka wrote: > > i tried to create a custom menu file according to > > http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu > but the only entries showing up were those of xfce (ie thunar, run as > .... and so forth), all other desktop files, being in > /usr/share/applications/ or ~/.local/share/applications/ are ignored. > i even created a desktop file with that exo-desktop-item-edit, but to no > avail. > simplest case is to add a single line > <Filename>navit.desktop</Filename> > and a > <Separator/> > in the <Layout> section. the separator will be displayed, the entry for > the navit.desktop will not. navit.desktop exists in both > /usr/share/applications/ and ~/.local/share/applications/. > > sadly enough, xfdesktop4 does not care to give any kind of error > message, neither when opening the menu nor in ~/.xsession-errors, so i > am unable to determine, what exactly goes on.
If no errors are outputed, the file is valid. If not, you can see stuff like: ** (xfce4-menu-plugin:4054): CRITICAL **: Unable to create XfceMenu from file '/home/corsac/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu': Error on line 11 char 2: Document ended unexpectedly with elements still open - 'Menu' was the last element opened The menu plugin might be a good idea to use for tests, so you're sure which menu you want it to open. Don't forget to reload xfdesktop if you don't have file monitoring support. Remember there are two parts: - adding new entries to the menu - changing the menu layout Adding new entries is just a matter of adding new .desktop files to .local/share/applications. Don't forget to correctly tune the Category. If you want to add them to the top menu, the category is X-Xfce-Toplevel. I'm not that familiar with menu editing in 4.6 so you may want to contact Xfce devs directly through the [email protected] list or the irc chan (#x...@freenode), or bugzilla if you clearly thinkg this is a bug. Cheers and thanks for the report, -- Yves-Alexis
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