xfce panel menus

[David Mohr]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Alex Samad<alex at samad.com.au> wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is an email I originally sent to deb-user ml, but it was suggested
> to send it to the xfce mailing list so
>
>
> --
> I am playing with the freedesktop menu'ing system now used in xfce.
>
> I have built my own alex.menu and added some .desktop file, I have a
> panel menu plugin but it seems to be static, when I update my .desktop
> files or my menu file it isn't reflected in the menu and I am not sure
> how to signal it to refresh ...

Make sure you have fam or gamin installed. Menu files are monitored,
if a file monitor is available.

I think a refresh would otherwise be an xfce4-panel --reload.

~David