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Jesdisciple

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Registered: 2012-01-17

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Adding the System menu, a la Gnome 2

Yes, I am another "refugee" of Gnome 3, as I saw it typed in another thread.  Yesterday I finally found the time to upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10.  After trying to revert the annoying changes for a few hours, I installed xubuntu-desktop and set about reconstructing my 9.10 panels.

I managed to make Applications-Places-System, and move Applications > Settings to System > Preferences (sort of).  The Preferences menu has the System icon, and is labelled System.  And when I deleted Settings from Applications, the old System menu appeared in its place.  I also have a menu for launching various Firefox profiles where a submenu icon is misbehaving, but I imagine the same solution will apply to both problems.

I don't see any way to attach a file...?  Anyhow, here's my /home/chris/.config/menus: http://www.fileswap.com/dl/qwHxHdJVbW/menus.tar.gz.html

EDIT: I got rid of the Applications > System menu; it was still in the xfce-applications.menu file but didn't show up in the menu editor.

Last edited by Jesdisciple (2012-01-17 04:57:30)

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Re: Adding the System menu, a la Gnome 2

Menu editors often don't understand XDG_MENU_PREFIX, therefore they try to edit the applications.menu, instead of xfce-applications.menu.

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ossgrouch

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Re: Adding the System menu, a la Gnome 2

Question?  If one was to change the file /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to a symbolic link pointing to /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu, would the menu editor correctly change the applications menu for Xfce?