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Yukon-Jack

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Registered: 2010-10-24

Posts: 1

Right-click Menu Customisation?

Howdy,

I'm trying to figure out how I can customise the menus that appear when I right-click on one of my panels or the desktop in Xfce 4.6.2.  I using Xubuntu 10.10 by the way, I was able to use Gnome menu editor to get the standard
menus up to snuff but it will do nothing for the right-click menus.

I have no aversion to manually editing config files if that's what it takes, I just cant seem to find the right ones.
Any help would be appreciated.

   - Jack of the Yukon

P.S.
It strikes me that I should be more specific.  From the panel's context menu I want to remove all options and from the desktop's context menu I want the "create new *" and "open terminal here" options.

gnome_refugee

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Registered: 2010-01-15

Posts: 169

Re: Right-click Menu Customisation?

See

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1105162

(I haven't tried this, myself)

etnlWings

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Registered: 2007-10-30

Posts: 218

Re: Right-click Menu Customisation?

You're better using the instructions on the wiki, rather than changing the system-wide entries:
http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu

Regardless, that's not what Yukon is looking for. To edit the xfce4-panel and xfdesktop context menus, you'll need to:

mkdir src && cd src
sudo apt-get build-dep xfce4-panel xfdesktop
sudo apt-get source xfce4-panel xfdesktop

Find and edit the menus, then:

cd /src/package source directory
dpkg-buildpackage
sudo gdebi ../*.deb

And finally pin the locally installed versions with apt-get/synaptic/aptitude, so that they don't automatically get upgraded the next time you update your system.