Gnome menus in Xfce4.2?

[Jan Bakuwel]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your email.

> Assuming Crossover creates .desktop files for the menu, you could move
> them to your applications menu (mine's /usr/share/applications but it
> varies) and Xfce should pick them up.  If it doesn't create them, you
> could make them, using other entries as examples; they're not
> complicated.

CrossOver indeed creates .desktop files as you can see in:

myrw:/usr/share/gnome/apps# ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root 176 Feb  2 12:27 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 408 Jan 20 12:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 240 Sep 29 13:49 Borland Kylix 3
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 312 Feb  2 12:27 CrossOver
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  88 Jan 20 12:32 Internet
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 200 Feb  2 12:56 Windows_Applications
myrw:/usr/share/gnome/apps#

I do see the Borland Kylix 3 and Internet menus ok (although the Borland 
Kylix 3 menu lists everything twice), but I do not see the CrossOver and 
Windows_Applications entries.

I tried copying the .desktop files from the directories mentioned above 
to /usr/share/applications, removed the ~/.cache/xfce4/menu-cache 
restarted the xfdeskop but still can't get those menu's to work.


> Just another idea, instead of running gnome-panel (I'm a bit partial to
> Xfce's, myself. :)

Yes.. if at all possible I'm trying not to mix both world if not necessary.

Any help is much appreciated!

cheers,
Jan


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