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Borsook
Asked: 2011-07-24 17:12:00 +0800 CST

GUI for editing Menu in Xubuntu

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I see that Xubuntu has package Gnome-menus, but I cannot find the command to run the editor it should contain. I found a small editor but it does not allow new entries and alacarte tries to install whole Gnome...

So I'm looking for a menu editor that will allow me to:

  • Add new launchers,
  • Edit existing ones
  • Move existing ones to different categories
  • Create new categories
  • Won't install bazillion dependencies :)
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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    11.04

    (and works for all versions since 11.04)

    The use of alacarte in the current version of xubuntu is perhaps not a good choice because of its perceived gnome dependencies - it is actually packaged wrongly, but that's a different story.

    Xubuntu / Lubuntu Menu editor

    You could try the following java based menu editor which works for both Xubuntu and Lubuntu: enter image description here

    To install, download and extract into your Downloads folder

    Then open your terminal:

    if you havent already installed java

    sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre

    followed by

    cd ~/Downloads/lxmed
chmod +x install.sh

    If the folder /opt does not exist then

    sudo mkdir /opt

    Finally

    sudo ./install.sh

    You launch the menu editor by Start - Settings - Main Menu Editor

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  2. 11.10 & 12.04

    sudo apt-get install alacarte --no-install-recommends

    This will let you use an editor to change the menus.

    Xfce 4.8 is used in Xubuntu 11.10 and Xubuntu 12.04.

    Using this command to install will not bring in all the gnome dependencies that are not needed for Xfce.

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