Items appearing in the Launcher -> Add New Item

[Thomas Eriksson]

On 12/19/2013 02:07 PM, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 13:21 -0800, Thomas Eriksson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have added a bunch of .desktop files for local applications to
>> /usr/local/share/applications/. These show up in the menus and in
>> the "Application Search". But they do not appear in the "Launcher ->
>> Add New Item" dialog.
>>
>> How can I make the applications appear in that dialog?
>>
>> I'm using Xfce 4.8 from EPEL on RHEL6.
> 
> I don't know about RHEL6, but in Debian, as soon as some .desktop/etc
> item is added... Debian automagically runs and "update-menus" kind of
> thing.
> 
> /usr/bin/update-menus
> 
> This is provided by the package "menu"...
> 	http://packages.debian.org/sid/menu
> 
> 
> I'm unsure of which package(s) provide this functionality for RHEL6.
> 

Thanks for the suggestions.

For the record, restarting the panel made the newly added applications
show up in the Add New Item dialog.


	Thomas