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JASx

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Registered: 2021-02-21

Posts: 25

How do you create the XFCE menu from scratch?

This is XFCE freshly installed from the repository. I'm not sure what the menu file is or how to build it.

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: How do you create the XFCE menu from scratch?

Basically, it allows you to create and use a custom menu file.

Xfce follows freedesktop  specifications. Specifically related to menus are the following two (useful to read through them):
- https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specif … menu-spec/
- https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specif … ntry-spec/

Here is an Xfce wiki entry on customizing menus that gives an overview. And here is a StackExchange post that gives some good instructional information.

You might also find some useful info in these forums of you search for "custom menu".

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deanr

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Registered: 2021-04-08

Posts: 15

Re: How do you create the XFCE menu from scratch?

I use a program called MenuLibre to edit my menu. I might be in your distro's repo.

Personally, I remove the menu from the panel, turn off the desktop and edit the right click menu which gives me an Openbox-esque workflow thus: