> This is a known issue that has affected a number of users.
> 
> If you look on the bright side you now have a much cleaner menu, and you
> can limit it to the few applications that you might want to run in dom0
> (hint - very few.)
> 
> You can copy the files from out of a Fedora based qube if you have one.
> 
> If you still have the install medium then you can extract the desktop
> files for applications that you want, by pulling them from the rpm
> packages:
> 
> For example, to get the xterm .desktop file:
> 
> mount qubes.iso /mnt
> rpm2cpio /mnt/Packages/x/xterm-318-2.fc23.86_64.rpm |cpio -idv "*.desktop"
> 
> This will extract xterm.desktop in usr in the current directory, and you
> can then move it in to /usr/share/applications
> 
> You can, of course, put this in a loop and iterate over all the Packages
> on the install disk, if you must.
> 
> If you have neither Fedora templates, nor the install medium, then you
> can write desktop files simply enough, or get them from another user.
> 
> I should say that NOT having dom0 entries is in my opinion a good thing
> - when I'm preparing Qubes for a new user I almost always delete them,
> and radically simplify the menu.
> 
> unman
> 
> 
> 
RESOLVED

I mounted the install media and extracted the desktop files as per your
instructions. Creating launchers from the desktop worked too. Desktop
files for the applications I wanted imported fine, but the xfce settings
manager is empty when I open it. That's fine, though.

Thanks, Unman.

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