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helloworld

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Registered: 2013-03-17

Posts: 2

How to remove items/add items from the start menu

Newbie here. Very impressed with the speed of this thing on the oldest dog on earth! OMG! Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! Insane! Now I am giving away a computer I built out of garage parts to an older person who doesn't have a computer, can't afford one and this will be his first computer altogether "to learn".

I believe that for the purpose of using a browser and watching DVDs he will not need to use most of the stuff in the start menu but a couple of icons maybe. I right clicked on the thing but all I could do as to customize the menu was changing the icon of the menu. I know this thing isn't for newbies but I have enough of a clue so I believe I can take directions to tweak his install/distro/whatever.

- Is there a gui to modify the start menu?

- If there isn't one can I modify the file where those entries are at with a text editor maybe?

- When I install a program with your package manager does this program appear in the menu on its own?

- Some things stay in English without any sort of suitable translation (I switched the language to Spanish at the beginning on the splash screen at boot), I'm totally fine with that but this older guy doesn't speak English.

You guy/s deserve a great deal of recognition for putting together this thing!

christophe

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Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: How to remove items/add items from the start menu

LXDE uses .desktop files which I believe are in /usr/share/applications

These files are automatically installed with the application

do a google search the lxde panel wiki is very understandable

lexeii

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: How to remove items/add items from the start menu

Hello!

I not sure about menu editor. I was going to write my own menu editor, but it's a long story I'll tell you how to do it using simple text editor.

1) Log in as root, open PCManFM

or

open PCManFM, click menu Tool→Open Current Folder as Root

2) Go to folder /usr/share/applications. Here you can see all your application's icons.

3) Right click on icon, open in Leafpad text editor.

4a) If you want to add Spanish translation, then add lines:

Name[sp]=Translated name you can see in menu near application icon

Comment[sp]=Comment you can see if you leave your mouse cursor under this menu item

4b) If you want to hide this menu item, add line:

Hidden=true

4c) You can move or delete this file instead of hide it in menu.

rerivero

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Registered: 2012-06-18

Posts: 235

Re: How to remove items/add items from the start menu

hola helloworld..

Lo que te explican Cristophe y Aleksej es correcto, si necesitas una pequeña guia en español tal vez pueda ayudarte..

1) Efectivamente, cuando instalas un programa con el gestor de paquetes, automáticamente debe aparecer en el menú.

2) Para modificar o eliminar algún elemento del menú, puedes hacer como te indica Aleksej iniciando sesion como root en modo grafico, o bien abriendo el archivo en cuestion desde la consola como root

ejemplo:

# leafpad usr/share applications/galculator.desktop (alli puedes modificar el menú de la calculadora) u ocultarlo agregando Hidden=true

3) Si hay aplicaciones que no necesitaras, en vez de ocultar o eliminar manualmente el archivo .desktop (del menu) quizas sea conveniente "desinstalar" dicho programa con Tazpanel, en cuyo caso automáticamente desaparece el menú.

4) Si la finalidad es mirar peliculas (en DVD u on-line) hace poco he compartido un pequeño script -en modo grafico- para poder ver las peliculas sin que se apague el monitor cada 10 minutos (valor por defecto) y al mismo tiempo te permite programar o no la hora de apagado del sistema. Lo puedes bajar desde aqui http://people.slitaz.org/~mojo/stuff/shutdown.tar.bz2 y en README están las instrucciones de instalación.-

Saludos

helloworld

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Registered: 2013-03-17

Posts: 2

Re: How to remove items/add items from the start menu

You guys are as fast to respond as this os runs on  this old dog,and you do it in more than one language! Damn! Thanks for the warm welcome guys!

@Christophe: Will take a look at LXDE and will look at the .Desktop files a to see what I grasp. Can't be that hard though context menus right on the items would be so awesome.

@Aleksej: Seems easy enough! Thank you. I wonder if getting the source and modding the LXDE menu so you could right click and hide/change/comment on items would be too difficult for someone with programming skills. IAll I ever did was VB a million years ago though. I wonder if there is such a thing as easy as VB in the Linux world.

@rerivero: Muy generoso de tu parte la oferta de traducir la guía! Afortunadamente no será necesario pero creo que sería interesante indagar la razón por la que elegir un idioma al inicio no cambia el idioma de algunas secciones del interface. Tienes razón en sugerir la desinstalación de lo que no vaya a ser necesario, solo que tengo que llegar a la instalación primero que creo que va a ser un reto siendo que vengo de Windows ==> Mac ==> Ubuntu y hasta me quejo de Ubuntu cuando me toca usar la cónsola (sí ya sé! Herejía jajajá, patético Pero el sacrificio de todo lo que tenga que aprender me parece que vale la pena considerando la cantidad de cadaveres tecnológicos que tengo en mi garage.

Gracias por tu apoyo!