Xubuntu: Change the Applications menu

Last update on August 11, 2009 03:36 PM by jak58
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Xubuntu: Change the Applications menu






Modify the application menu of Xubuntu

Unlike Ubuntu, Xubuntu does not have a menu editor.

The only way to edit the menu is to go edit text files( manually).

To do this, open a terminal (do not use the file manager: Thunar) and go to /usr/share/applications

Typing the command ls, you'll find lots of files with the extension .desktop .
Each file corresponds to an entry in the menu: You can then edit it with mousepad.

For example: sudo mousepad gxine.desktop
From there, you can:
  • You can add entries to the menus.
  • Change software category.

Delete an entry from the menu


Just rename the file .desktop.

For example, to remove the word processor of OpenOffice from menu, enter: 
mv ooo-write.desktop ooo-write.desktop.disabled
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