I'd like to add some items to my Xfce "root menu", see picture for location:
Searching the web gave a couple of possibilities (different XML files etc), but it appears that Xubuntu has customized it quite a bit. Maybe I just overlooked the settings? I also tried LXmenueditor, which does not access the root menus.
Where is the location of the configs for Xubuntu? Would it be possible to get stock-Xfce right click-on-desktop functionality without breaking anything? By that I mean: right click on desktop and have the Xfce menu instead of going through Xubuntu's submenu to access it.
Thanks for your time!
Best Answer
versions 11.04 - 13.10
As the picture shows - "test" is a root menu which has been added.
To do this will require a couple of folders to be created:
Next copy the standard menu template file into the local menus folder
Note - the stock XFCE menu could also be used - I prefer this menu so I've used it in my example:
Now create our test menu - its in .desktop file-format
copy and paste the following:
The important bit is the last line - it must have X-Xfce-Toplevel as a category
Edit our custom menu:
Add a new entry as shown:
Finally - lets use the custom menu file:
Right click Start and choose properties:
Choose the custom menu option and navigate and select the custom menu file
~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu