menu again

[David Thompson]

Yes, I was having some difficulty with the concept.  However, I have to
slightly disagree with you.

I did edit the menu within ~.cache.  There were no other entries or
folders or files, that at the time I knew about.  But I did need to
logout of xfce and into another window manager - fluxbox - to edit that
menu.  As I said it worked and the entries are removed.

> The next time you install or
> remove an application, the menu will notice this, regenerate, and
> your custom changes to the menu in ~/.cache will be overwritten.

I did not find this to be the case in all respects.

But I will investigate your knowledge.

cheers

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:15:42 -0800
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

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> On 2/22/2006 9:28 AM, David Thompson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Thanks for all your help.  This following link gave the clue.
> > 
> > http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfce4#faq
> > 
> > The menu is in ~.cache.  It has everything.  I do not have
> > the .desktop file as was mentioned.
> 
> Methinks you misinterpreted things.  The menu in .cache is *not* the
> "real" menu.  Assuming you have the "system" menu included in the
> menu - either ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml, or if you haven't
> edited yours, $sysconfdir/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml, then your menu
> is generated from .desktop files in /usr/share/applications, among
> other places.  The FAQ details this.  The next time you install or
> remove an application, the menu will notice this, regenerate, and
> your custom changes to the menu in ~/.cache will be overwritten.  You
> can, however, copy that menu.xml file to
> ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml and edit it there.  Of course, the
> menu will stop noticing app installs and uninstalls, and you'll have
> to edit it manually from now on.
> 
> 	-brian
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