No way to add a main menu item

**stephaneeybert** · October 25th, 2012

1: do you have a pure Lubuntu 12.10 installation?
Yes, a fresh install.

2: what do you mean by gnome-editor? Are you referring to gedit?
Sorry, I meant the gnome-terminal in fact.

3: I'm not sure Alacarte works well with Lubuntu.
Indeed, it does not seem to.

4: At what level in the menu do you expect to see "others"? Even I don't have it.
I don't have an "Others" menu either. I thought there was supposed to be one, but maybe not.

5: Leafpad is the default text editor in Lubuntu.
I'm happy with vim.

**stephaneeybert** · October 25th, 2012

My /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop file contains:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Gnome Terminal
Comment=Use the Gnome Terminal on the command line
TryExec=gnome-terminal
Exec=gnome-terminal
Icon=utilities-terminal
Type=Application
X-GNOME-DocPath=gnome-terminal/index.html
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gnome-terminal
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=BugBuddyBugs
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.6.0
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;TerminalEmulator;
StartupNotify=true
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;
Keywords=Run;
Actions=New
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-terminal

[Desktop Action New]
Name=New Terminal
Exec=gnome-terminal
OnlyShowIn=Unity

But no such menu entry is being displayed in any menu.

By the way, sorry for my late reply to your posts you all, but I don't get email notifications on new posts.

**stephaneeybert** · October 25th, 2012

My Lubuntu 12.10 Software Center does not have a "LXDE Main Menu Editor" nor a "LXMenuEditor". It has the Edubuntu one which I have not yet tried.

**stephaneeybert** · October 25th, 2012

In the /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop file I commented out the line

#OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;

and the menu entry then showed up fine in the "Accessories" menu.

**vasa1** · October 25th, 2012

Originally Posted by stephaneeybert

1: do you have a pure Lubuntu 12.10 installation?
Yes, a fresh install.
....

So I asked about a "pure" Lubuntu and you mentioned a "fresh" one. Either way, gnome-terminal isn't there by default. No wonder you had problems. Anyway, people looking to mix-n-match may be helped by your solution.