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payasam

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Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 9

"Other" in XFCE menu

There is, in my XFCE menu, a category "Other" which contains a large number of programs which I do not need. If I right click on the XFCE menu icon, go into "Properties" and specify the custom menu file, then do the same thing again and go back to the default menu file, the "Other" item disappears. However, I would prefer not to have to go through this rigmarole.

A search on the Net says that individual .desktop files need to have NoDisplay=true added to them. This will be tedious. I'd have thought that the menu would have a sort of tree structure, so that removing or disabling the "trunk" of Other would remove its various "branches" as well.

XFCE 4.6.2 on Debian 6. Help appreciated.

herd

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-05-18

Posts: 143

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Re: "Other" in XFCE menu

If I remember correctly, this is something that is always recreated when Debian's update-menus command is called,
which in turn gets triggered whenever you install something.

Further reading on the menu package may shed some light.

payasam

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Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 9

Re: "Other" in XFCE menu

Thank you, herd.