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Hello,
how can I edit the application menu in LXDE e.g. if I want to delete some unneeded entries?#
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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)
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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!
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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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I already installed obmenu, but changes in there seems to have no change on the menu of LXDE.
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In that case, Army's way is the only one. And it's ugly.
And I'm wrong again. Have a look here:
Last edited by celettu (2009-03-10 14:31:19)
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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.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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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:
This ADDS applications to the menu, but what about removing them?
Last edited by Army (2009-03-10 16:23:51)
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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.
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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.
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The following script works great for me:
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8 … 074#p37074
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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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