On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Ulli Horlacher < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue 2017-01-03 (07:31), Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > There's a menu that pops up when I right-click the desktop. I have no > idea > > what it's called or what app or service does it, but I use it a lot. > > xfdesktop --menu > > > > Lately some new stuff has shown up on it. Fine. But I'd like to > > reorganize it a bit. Is this possible? > > There are alacarte and menulibre, but both are horrible buggy. > I do not use them any more, because they mess up the application menu. > You can edit manually > ~/.local/share/applications/* > ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu > > But this is a hard job :-( > You're only half right. It's not hard. It's just hard to do it right. So okay, you're not only right, but you understated the difficulty. I made what I thought was a minimal edit to ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu, just moving one line down in a "layout" section. Immediately all my window decorations went blank, and I could not so much as start a terminal emulator. I installed a new copy of xubuntu beside this one for comparison, and after some hours of comparison and wondering, I just tried something because the new system did not have directory ~/.config/menus/ at all. So I renamed it on the broken system (I figured that was a bit safer than just deleting it) and booted into it. Now it boots and it's workable. But when I booted, it reported a system error -- it has done that before, so I'm not too worried, but I'm sure not in a hurry to go editing that menu directory again. I think I'll just live with it..... I had other problems with the new install that I'll write about separately... -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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