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imhere14

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From: Austria / Österreich

Registered: 2012-01-30

Posts: 5

[Solved] Removing a menu line will just move the entry

Hi, folks!

It's my second day with Xfce and it I'm really enjoying it. But I have on problem:

I copied, as said in the Wiki, the file xfce-applications.menu to ~/.config/menus. However, if I delete the line "<Filename>exo-mail-reader.desktop</Filename>" for example, it will just get down between Documentation and Developing in the menu. How can I completely remove it?

imhere14

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Ahau

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Registered: 2011-12-22

Posts: 27

Re: [Solved] Removing a menu line will just move the entry

hi!  I just dealt with this issue a few days ago.  This happens because the menu still searches for and displays all .desktop entries it can find in /usr/share/applications.  So, even though you remove this line from the xml file, it will still find /usr/share/applications/exo-mail-reader.desktop, see that it is set to be a top-level entry, and apply it as such.

You could either delete /usr/share/applications/exo-mail-reader.desktop or add 'NotShowIn=XFCE;' to the end of that file (without the single quotes) to hide it from the menu for all users on your system.  If you only want to remove it from the menu for the single user, then you need to exclude it from the entire menu.  Do this towards the top of the xml file that you've saved inside ~/.config/menus/, such as this:

<Menu>
    <Name>Xfce</Name>
 
    <DefaultAppDirs/>
    <DefaultDirectoryDirs/>
 
    <Include>
        <Category>X-Xfce-Toplevel</Category>
    </Include>
    
    <Exclude>
        <Filename>exo-mail-reader.desktop</Filename>
    </Exclude>
        
 
    <Layout>
        <Filename>xfrun4.desktop</Filename>
        <Separator/>
        <Filename>exo-terminal-emulator.desktop</Filename>
        <Filename>exo-file-manager.desktop</Filename>
        <Filename>exo-web-browser.desktop</Filename>
        <Separator/>
        <Menuname>Settings</Menuname>
        <Separator/>
        <Merge type="all"/>
        <Separator/>
        <Filename>xfhelp4.desktop</Filename>
        <Filename>xfce4-about.desktop</Filename>
        <Filename>xfce4-session-logout.desktop</Filename>
    </Layout>

Hope that helps

Last edited by Ahau (2012-01-30 18:18:29)

imhere14

Member

From: Austria / Österreich

Registered: 2012-01-30

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] Removing a menu line will just move the entry

Thank you, that worked perfectly.

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