Edit places menu in GNOME classic Ubuntu 11.10

**tito-dutta** · May 31st, 2012

I want to add these two folders in Places menu
1) Documents folder
2) Ebooks folder
In short I want to customize "Places"
By default, "Documents" was added there, but I think I have messed up something, so, it is missing now!
How can I do it?

**tito-dutta** · June 1st, 2012

Anyone?

**tito-dutta** · June 9th, 2012

Bump, anyone?

**hariprasad** · June 9th, 2012

I would like to do it too. Because after upgrade it doesn't work for me. Icons are visible, but after click there is no response. It looks like, that there is something wrong.

**bogan** · June 9th, 2012

Hi!, tito-dutta,

The only 11.10 install I have access to at present does not have the Gnome Classic option so I cannot confirm what follows works for that, but from memory it did.

But In 12.04:
What show in the drop-down of the Places menu are Bookmarks, and you add or edit them from the Bookmarks menu of a Places window.

Open a Places window, say Home Folder, Select 'Bookmarks' menu and either >Add or >Edit Bookmarks.

Change the entries in the Add or Edit window that opens and select 'Close', or 'Remove' and 'Close'.

Chao!, bogan.

**pkirkaas** · December 11th, 2012

Well, that didn't work for me, but in 12.10, after grepping around, I found the

Code:

/home/[username]/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks

file.

That lists the custom locations like Documents, Music, etc.

Just put or remove locations there to customize the Places menu. It seems like by default it takes the last directory name in the path as the name of the place, but if you add a space and your own name, it will use that instead.

Then, just log out & back in.