Several Questions - Applicatios Menu adn Automount

[Stephen P. Molnar]

On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 15:18 -0200, Sergio wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > I have just implemented xfce4 on my Debian Testing installation on a VM
> >
> > on my laptop.  I have become disenchanted with KDE and have never really
> >
> > liked Gnome.
> >
> >
> >
> > My impressions of xfce4 is very favorable, but I have several questions.
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. Is it possible for me to the Application Menu?  I have a number of
> >
> > applications that have inserted items in the Application Menu, but I
> >
> > would like to group them under a common heading.  This was a simple
> >
> > matter in KDE, but Google hasn't helped me with xfce4.
> >
> >
> 
> 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
> 
> >
> > 2. I can't seem to configure auto-mounting for either CDROM's or USB
> >
> > sticks.  What do I need besides the Removable Drives and Media
> >
> > application?
> >
> 
> 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.
> 
> >
> > 3.  Where can I edit menu selections in gdm?
> >
> >
> 
> 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.
> 
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Thanks for your reply.