Jeff Vian wrote:
thedogfarted wrote:
try this:
cd /usr/share/applications ls
If you are looking for a file named .desktop, you CANNOT see it with "ls"
You will have to use "ls .*" to see files whose names begin with a "."
The shell does not match file names beginning with a . when it expands the *, and ls follows the same rules.
you didn't understand me. When we speak about menu editing we speak not about file named .desktop but files with extension '.desktop'
[thedogfarted@yarrow thedogfarted]$ cd /usr/share/applications [thedogfarted@yarrow applications]$ ls fedora-gnome-alsamixer.desktop mail-notification.desktop fedora-hdspconf.desktop mozilla-compose.desktop ....
and what do you see now??
if i open /usr/share/applications i can't see any .desktop files too, that's because nautilus displays the names specified in those files.
pinco wrote:
Andrew Robinson wrote:
I asked this question a week or so ago. Youssef Makki was kind enough to provide me with this short exchange on the subject of adding items to the menus by hand. I have not tried these modifications yet, but here is the info I have:
HTH,
Andrew Robinson
That's determined in the .desktop file itself, take the xchat one for example:
Categories=Application;Network;
This would make it show up under Internet -> More Internet Applications.
Add "X-Red-Hat-Base;" to the categories, and it'll show up in the main
Internet menu.
Hi Andrew,
I wasn't able to find any .desktop file! It isn't in my /usr/share/applications.
Thanks, Nino
