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Reploid

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From: Cold Country up North

Registered: 2008-03-27

Posts: 110

Creating a fully customized GNOME menu- where are the desktop files?

According to: http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-a … -id2687328

Desktop entry files must reside in the $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications directory and must have a .desktop file extension. If $XDG_DATA_DIRS1 is not set, then the default path is /usr/share is used.

Where do I see if the XDG_DATA_DIRS1 is set, if I have one, and where do I set one? Where do I find my .desktop file to mess around with? I want to see if there is a possibility to get rid of the Applications + Places + System, and create my own custom menu.

And is there any way of having the menu look like the menu in linux mint?

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Creating a fully customized GNOME menu- where are the desktop files?

$ grep -r XDG_DATA_DIRS /etc/profile.d/*  /etc/X11/

For the desktop files, look in /usr/share/applications or run locate *.desktop.

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