Reload system menu?

[Robby Workman]

Andrew Robinson wrote:
> I am trying to configure my XFCE menu. I am creating and modifying my
> *.desktop files inside of ~/.local/share/applications
> 
> Here are my $XDG* environment settings:
> 
> XDG_DATA_DIRS=/home/anrobins/.local/share:etc/xdg/xubuntu:/home/anrobins/.local/share:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share/gdm/:/usr/share
> XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/anrobins/.local/share
> 
> I have tried "xfce4-panel -r" to see if that would force the re-load
> of the xfce menu, but it does not. What can I do without restarting my
> whole xfce session to see the changes?


update-desktop-database <directory>

-RW