[xubuntu-users] Is it possible to edit the right-click menu?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Ulli Horlacher <
framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> 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
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