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Darjeeling

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Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 210

LXDE Menu Editor

Like XFCE and other light weight desktop environments, LXDE doesn't (yet) have a menu editor of its own. There's now an independent "lxmed" project that has a nice looking menu editor for LXDE. But it is written in Java. So, no thanks (the IcedTea JRE alone takes up almost 100MB). Then there's "alacarte", the freedesktop-compliant menu editor from the Gnome 2.xx desktop. But this is even worse. I once tried to install alacarte in Xubuntu and Synaptic told me that there were 90+ dependencies ... crazy. What are they thinking at Gnome?

But over time I have figured out how to edit the LXDE menu manually. I can add, edit and remove individual menu entries, I can move them around between the different menu-directories and I can create menu-subdirectories. The only thing I still cannot do is to change the order of the menu entries which in LXDE always defaults to alphabetical. Does anyone have an idea how to do this?

(Sorry for the long-winding intro ... sometimes I can't control it.)