Several Questions - Applicatios Menu adn Automount

[Sergio]

On 11/16/2012 01:09 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I have several questions that I should like to pose to the mailing list.
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> I have just implemented xfce4 on my Debian Testing installation on a VM
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> on my laptop.  I have become disenchanted with KDE and have never really
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> liked Gnome.
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> My impressions of xfce4 is very favorable, but I have several questions.
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> 1. Is it possible for me to the Application Menu?  I have a number of
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> applications that have inserted items in the Application Menu, but I
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> would like to group them under a common heading.  This was a simple
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> matter in KDE, but Google hasn't helped me with xfce4.
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I suppose you want to edit it. Yes.
The menu is set-up with a menu file. If you right-click the menu button 
and open its properties window you can choose to use a custom menu file.
Or you can put your custom menu in ~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu

The menu file uses desktop directories (/usr/share/desktop-directories). 
Custom ones can go in ~/.local/share/desktop-directories

Finally the application themselves use desktop files. Custom ones go in 
~/.local/share/applications or /usr/local/share/applications and they 
override the ones in /usr/share/applications of the same name.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/menu-spec
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec

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> 2. I can't seem to configure auto-mounting for either CDROM's or USB
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> sticks.  What do I need besides the Removable Drives and Media
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> application?
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That should be all to it. It never worked for me but since I upgraded to 
Xfce 4.10 it started working. I guess its performance (which means work 
or not) varies depending on the hardware.

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> 3.  Where can I edit menu selections in gdm?
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What exactly you mean by that? The installed xsessions are usually in 
/etc/xdg/xsessions

lightdm is a good DM too and doesn't bring extra GNOME dependencies.