editing menus.

[killermoehre]

Am 03.04.2012 00:15, schrieb Ray Andrews:
> On 02/04/12 11:55 AM, Vincent wrote:
>
> Hi Vincent,
>>
>>
>> You could try installing the Alacarte menu editor and use that to 
>> edit your menus.
>
> Thanks. Until I figure out how this stuff works manually, it does seem 
> that Alacarte is the way to go. Actually it's not so much that I want 
> to edit my menus right now, but that I want to find the name of the 
> command being executed by various menu items. I figure an editor 
> should supply that information.  All GUIs, it seems, delight in hiding 
> things from you and unfortunately Xfce is no exception. So far, what I 
> do is drag menu items to the panel, and once there you can look under 
> the hood to see what's going on.  Then I delete the item on the panel. 
> I don't know why we can't just right click on menu items and have the 
> same functionality there that we do on the panel. But.
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Hi Ray,

you can't right click because the menu is not a menu editor, but right 
now there is a coder coding one.
Until then I suggest you read the official specs 
(http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/) and the 
wiki entry (http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu).
If you just want to know what an entry executes I have a one liner for you:

 > cat $(grep -P "^Name=${APPLICATION_NAME}\s*$" 
/usr/share/applications/* | awk -F ":" '{ print $1 }') | grep -P "^Exec="

Just replace ${APPLICATION_NAME} with the name shown in the panel. This 
was just a 3 minute hack, most time was used by reading the help for 
grep and awk, so it isn't difficult.

Regards