Lubuntu Program Start – Start Program Without Using Terminal

The terminal that you get along with the LXDE package is lxterminal. To install the terminal application that generally comes along GNOME is gnome-terminal.

Installation:

Type in

sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal

in the lxterminal.

another good looking terminal that allows you to dropdown on pressing F12, looks fancy and comes handy is the guake terminal. Try it by typing :

sudo apt-get install guake

in the lxterminal.

And hope those are the last commands that you use in lxterminal

Here's what you can do. While in a Lubuntu session:

• Open two windows of your file manager side-by-side.
• In one window, go to /usr/share/applications and make sure that the Firefox icon is visible.
• In the other window, go to ~/.local/share/applications and make sure you have enabled viewing "hidden files and folders". (In case you do not have ~/.local/share/applications, just create such a folder.)
• Now, copy the Firefox desktop file from /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications. (You should be able to do this without needing sudo.)
• Right-click on the copied file (do not double-click, please).
• Choose to open with a simple text editor (gedit or leafpad).
• Find the line that says "OnlyShowIn=Unity;". Delete that line if that is the only content on that line or comment it out by placing a # at the beginning of that line. Else, carefully, delete just "OnlyShowIn=Unity;". Note that the "opposite" of OnlyShowIn=, is NotShowIn=. I understand that TargetEnvironment=, which would be synonymous to OnlyShowIn=, is now deprecated.
• At this point, if you save and close the file and check in your Lubuntu menu, you should see Firefox listed.

To minimize confusion, you could do some more by further editing the desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications.

• Search for all lines exactly beginning with Name=. (There could be more than one.)
• Replace Firefox with L-Firefox or whatever.

After saving and closing the desktop file, you'll see whatever name you have provided appear in the menu (along with regular Firefox when you run Unity).