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problemkenner

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Registered: 2009-02-17

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[LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

Hello,

how can I edit the application menu in LXDE e.g. if I want to delete some unneeded entries?#

Thanks

celettu

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXPanel

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problemkenner

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

Hello celettu,

thank you for your post but that does not seem to help me.

Where do I find the information I look for on the page you posted?

Last edited by problemkenner (2009-03-10 14:20:16)

Army

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

The LX-Menu is created by the *.desktop files. Almost every package of a graphical application delivers such a file. Check out the folder /usr/share/applications, there you find them. So the only way to "edit the LX-Menu entries" is to delete those *.desktop files you don't want...but that's VERY ugly!

celettu

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

My bad, I understood you wanted to change the panel.

Editing the menu in Openbox is done with obmenu. Check if it's installed.

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problemkenner

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

I already installed obmenu, but changes in there seems to have no change on the menu of LXDE.

celettu

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

In that case, Army's way is the only one. And it's ugly.

And I'm wrong again. Have a look here:

http://u-lite.org/?q=node/136

Last edited by celettu (2009-03-10 14:31:19)

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Inxsible

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

The LX-Menu is created by the *.desktop files.

I agree.

Almost every package of a graphical application delivers such a file.

Not all apps provide a .desktop

Check out the folder /usr/share/applications, there you find them. So the only way to "edit the LX-Menu entries" is to delete those *.desktop files you don't want...but that's VERY ugly!

Again I agree, its a dirty fix.

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Army

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

Not all apps provide a .desktop

But do these apps appear in lxmenu?
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Of course they can appear, in case you place a custom desktop file in ~/.local, that's for sure. But lxmenu only reads desktop files, so if there is none of application foo, it won't appear in lxmenu!

Have a look here:

http://u-lite.org/?q=node/136

This ADDS applications to the menu, but what about removing them?

Last edited by Army (2009-03-10 16:23:51)

skottish

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

This is what you need to do to get rid of stuff from the menu. It'll take a bit of work, but it's not hard.

Copy the .desktop file of whatever you want to remove from /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications. Open the file in a text editor and edit the line that says NoDisplay=false to NoDisplay=true. If the NoDisplay line isn't there, add NoDisplay=true.

nabilalk

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

This is what you need to do to get rid of stuff from the menu. It'll take a bit of work, but it's not hard.

Copy the .desktop file of whatever you want to remove from /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications. Open the file in a text editor and edit the line that says NoDisplay=false to NoDisplay=true. If the NoDisplay line isn't there, add NoDisplay=true.

NoDisplay=true addition works nicely. I'm using CrunchBang Linux with lxpanel 0.5.3, and was able to apply your instructions to my distro (based on  Ubuntu (Karmic). Thank you.

patparad

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

The following script works great for me:
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8 … 074#p37074

fsckd

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Re: [LXDE] Editing the lxpanel-menu

Welcome to the forums patparad. Necro-bumping is unnecessary: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27
May I suggest adding that link to the wiki?
Also, closing.

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