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geovino
April 20th, 2012, 03:34 PM
How do you edit the Lubuntu menu? I've used alacarte for Mint but thats for the Gnome menu. What does Lubuntu (LXDE)use?

running Lubuntu 11.10 64bit

Perfect Storm
April 20th, 2012, 04:17 PM
See this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11420721&postcount=13

geovino
April 20th, 2012, 06:01 PM
See this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11420721&postcount=13

thanks, but this doesn't show me whats listed in the menus. And to install alacarte wants 50 programs to be installed along with it. Why? is it because its a gnome programs and if you run LXDE you needs all those programs just to run alacarte?

All I want to do is delete some of the games that I don't play. that should be simple. the old gnome would let you right click > edit menu and you could easily edit what you needed, now it seems to be complicated.

there must be a better way, eh?

Perfect Storm
April 20th, 2012, 06:10 PM
I don't there's a menu editor. Never heard of one.

Can't you find the games you want to edit out of the menu in /usr/share/applications and rename with a _bak?

geovino
April 20th, 2012, 06:16 PM
I don't there's a menu editor. Never heard of one.

Can't you find the games you want to edit out of the menu in /usr/share/applications and rename with a _bak?

I'll try that out. thanks

Gnome 2: you would right click applications and you had an edit menu option. that is something was is very helpful and shouldn't have been removed.

Perfect Storm
April 20th, 2012, 07:57 PM
LXDE is not Gnome2.
I think the reason why LXDE doesn't have a menu editor is to keep it light.

geovino
April 20th, 2012, 08:02 PM
LXDE is not Gnome2.
I think the reason why LXDE doesn't have a menu editor is to keep it light.

That's OK. I solved the problem by going into synaptic and deleting ace-the-penguins. that deleted all the card games and the games heading on the menu. :)

jefsview
April 20th, 2012, 08:09 PM
Have you tried this:

http://lxmed.sourceforge.net/

It's more text-based than Alacarte, but does with work Xfce's menu (I tried it when I was running Debian).

Of course it was created for LXDE and works far better than LXappearance or whatever that small menu-editor app is they use.

-- Jeff

Herpythebrony
April 20th, 2012, 11:01 PM
To install lxmed, first download (http://lxmed.sourceforge.net/download.html) a .tar.gz file.
Unpack archive in your home or desktop folder.
In terminal, enter the lxmed folder and type
chmod +x install.sh to make install script executable.
Install lxmed by typing
sudo ./install.sh
Go to main menu -> Preferences -> Main Menu Editor

Treeant34
August 11th, 2012, 03:12 PM
Awesome Cubed...

Thanks for throwing that one out there...

Been looking for a replacement for the missing Gnome Menu Editor for a while...

Why doesn't Lubuntu port Gnomes' Menu Editor over (very handy)?

I like the Gnome Desktop but LXDE is faster

Where can I put this comment so that the developers can see this?

Thx