<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/4.6.6"> </HEAD> <BODY> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 20:25 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Lutz Andersohn <<A HREF="mailto:landersohn@gmail.com">landersohn@gmail.com</A>> wrote: </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BLOCKQUOTE> On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 21:09 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> I'm baffled by the whisker menu. I want to edit what's in it, but I'm having little luck. I'm not even sure what doc to read. So, of course, I right-clicked on the icon, and went to Edit Applications. On expanding "System" I see a long list of applications, including Menu Editor, which sounded promising. But despite appearing in the list for System, it does not appear in the actual whisker menu under System and I don't see any option to make it do so. If I can't do that, I don't have much hope of adding anything that's actually new. So what obvious thing is it that I'm missing? I think what I'm looking for should be obvious, and I'm afraid I missed the obvious (this is more and more frequent as I get older). -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="448"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="25"> <IMG SRC="cid:XVHDKDFDBURW.IMAGE_60.gif" WIDTH="25" HEIGHT="21" ALIGN="bottom" BORDER="0"> </TD> <TD WIDTH="423"> Please consider the environment before printing this email. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BLOCKQUOTE> Whisker menu assembles the menu from the various *.desktop files it finds. Adding a custom item is very easy using MenuLibre: MenuLibre essentially creates a *.desktop file and Whisker picks it up. I do that all the time. </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> I tried looking for *.desktop files, and didn't find anything very helpful -- possibly because there are so many in so many places, and very few of them with names that relate to things I see in the whisker menu. Also you neglect to connect the dots, and give any help in figuring out just what you accomplish and just how you accomplish it. </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> I'm really floundering here. How do I get started? </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> -- </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Kevin O'Gorman </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="448"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="25"> <IMG SRC="cid:XVHDKDFDBURW.IMAGE_60.gif" WIDTH="25" HEIGHT="21" ALIGN="bottom" BORDER="0"> </TD> <TD WIDTH="423"> Please consider the environment before printing this email. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BLOCKQUOTE> for what it's worth, the desktop files live in /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications for the most part. Custom entries you make using MenuLibre (or other editors) usually go into the latter directory. Maybe I misunderstood your question but I think you want to add a custom launcher If you want step-by-step instuctions to add a custom launcher: - open MenuLibre from the Setup window - Select your category, click "Add"-"Add Launcher" and enter your custom launcher: the program to start, name and so on. - Save Next time you open whisker menu and look at the category where you just created the new launcher, it will be there. <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <PRE> -- ---- Lutz Andersohn main(){int j=1234;char t[]=":@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.\n",*i= "iqgbgxmlrls@l@yveofeqgbnek.n";char *strchr(const char *,int);while( *i){j+=strchr(t,*i++)-t;j%=sizeof t-1;putchar(t[j]);} return 0;} (925) 784 1565 D-19318, AFF-I http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/b65/2b6 Public key ID: 0x9620D1A6 </PRE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>