Xfce menu Ubuntu Quantal

[Lawrence H. Bulk]

In the Settings Manager>Main Menu>Xfce><submenu> (e.g. Accessories,
Development, Education, Games, etc.) you merely highlight a program and
then move it up or down as you wish. This sorts the Applications Menu the
way you prefer.

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 13:41 -0400, Lawrence H. Bulk wrote:
> > It is easy to have new programs show up in the menu in Xfce.
> >
> > 1. Install the new program (either from within your enabled
> > repositories or directly from the program's web site [e.g. Ubuntu
> > Tweak, Dropbox, etc.])
> >
> > 2. Determine where the "execute" command is located; often this is in
> > a "hidden" file in your home folder
> >
> > 3. Open the Settings Manager, click on Main Menu, and navigate to the
> > folder in which you want the program to appear (Accessories,
> > Development, etc.)
> >
> > 4. Click on New Item. The Create Launcher dialog box will appear.
> >
> > 5. Enter the program's name; often this will be sufficient and all the
> > other necessary information will be automatically added
> >
> > 6. If this information is not added, you will have to manually add it
> > yourself
> >
> > 7. Once all information is added and you have clicked on Create,
> > scroll down the list in the folder and look for the program
> >
> > 8. Make certain that a) the program is checked and b) the name appears
> > in regular font (not italicized). After checking the program, you may
> > have to wait a few seconds for the program's name to appear in regular
> > font
> >
> > 9. At that point, when everything is done, close out the Settings
> > Manager and go to your Applications menu and the subfolder in which
> > you placed the new program. Find the program and click on it to make
> > sure you have entered all information correctly and that the program
> > starts normally. (If it doesn't, you'll have to go back and start all
> > over again)
> >
> > 10. If you wish, you can create a Launcher in your bottom panel for
> > the program
> >
> > I hope that this information is of some use to you.
>
> Often an icon isn't used by the Xfce menu or entries can't be sorted in
> the order I want them to show up etc. pp., i really need to know where
> the config files are. I already know how to configer the Xfce menu this
> way.
>
> "Main menu" is the app named "Alacarte". The funny thing is, that
> Alacart does show the correct icons and the wanted order of the apps,
> but what you see for Alacarte, aka main menu, isn't what you get for the
> menu, at least not all the times.
>
>
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