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xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

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[SOLVED] Display Xfce4 menu apps in terminal as a list

I used Xfce4 as my default window manager, but now I switched to spectrwm, because I'm low on memory resources when I run any browser.
But now I don't remember all names of installed apps, especially in menu, and some of them had options when started from Xfce4 menu.

Now I want to display all Xfce4 menu apps (with all sub-menus) in terminal as a list (name of app and command with opiton(s), if applicable) and redirect output to text file (this part of task is simple). How to do that?

I couldn't find suitable Xfce4 app to do this, nor any configuration file which include list of this apps in menu. Where is stored information about applications in menu, sub-menus, etc. ?

Last edited by xerxes_ (2019-03-26 13:42:32)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Display Xfce4 menu apps in terminal as a list

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_entries

In particular, without having tested it, you might be interested in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … lsdesktopf

xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

Posts: 1,076

Re: [SOLVED] Display Xfce4 menu apps in terminal as a list

Yes, it looks interesting, but I don't want currently install anything from AUR repo, so please advise me some other solution.

Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Display Xfce4 menu apps in terminal as a list

Write your own script to parse all of the *.desktop files.

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