How do I restore a hidden application from Xfce's app launcher menu?

[Phil Fraser]

Regards,

Phil

On Wed, 10 Aug. 2022, 10:31 am Chris Roy-Smith, <
chris_roysmith at internode.on.net> wrote:

> On 10/8/22 09:35, Phil wrote:
> > Thank you for reading this.
> >
> > I ran into this problem some time ago and eventually found a menu editor
> > than I thought is named main_menu that solved the problem, however I
> > cannot find it so it could be named something else. The menu editor that
> > I'm looking for has check boxes for each application and so it was a
> > simple tick or untick the box job.
> >
> > During my hours of searching, and reconnecting, I did find a suggestion
> > that a file containing "hidden=true" needs to be edited. The file
> > doesn't seem to exist in Xubuntu 22.04. I expect that there is such a
> > file but of a different name.
> >
> > My current Internet connection is very slow and so searching for help is
> > extremely frustrating, I'll consider myself fortunate if I can post this
> > e-mail. I did post a request for help on the Xubuntu list but haven't
> > received a reply.
> >
> Hi Phil,
> have you tried looking for your program using whiskers? press ctrl-esc,
> and type "menu", or "edit", the window should show what you are looking
> for along with some other programs.
>
> regards,
> Chris
> --

Thank you Chris.

I've just returned from "Internet hill" and on the way down I had a bright
idea and what I ended doing was to create a new launcher and then edit
that. A two step process but it worked.

I'm sorry if this e-mail is not formatted correctly, I wasn't going to
backpack my laptop up the hill again.

Phil

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