Edit Menu Problems

Asked by Mike Brown

I am having trouble opening the "Edit Menus" on the main menu. Every time a try and launch it nothing happens.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said :
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Ubuntu comes with the Alacarte Menu Editor, so you can customize your menus and add entries for applications that don't automatically appear after they are installed.

To add a new menu entry:
Open Alacarte with System ->Preferences -> Menu Editor, or by right-clicking on any top-level menu and choosing Edit Menus.

In Alacarte's left-hand pane, choose the submenu the new entry should appear in.

Choose New item on the Right hand side.

In the Create Launcher window, choose a Name, Comment, Command and Icon ( Icons can be selected by clicking on the picture on the Left hand side of the window). The Command will usually be the package name, Name is what will appear on the menu, and the Comment will appear in the tooltip that appears near the menu entry. Icons are added to the /usr/share/pixmaps directory by default, or can be chosen from anywhere in your files.

To change the order of menu entries, use the move up and move down buttons on the right-hand side of the Alacarte main menu window.

To stop a menu entry from being displayed, use the checkboxes beside each entry. This does not erase the menu entry, so you can restore it later in the same way.

If the problem still persists..

This thread might help you out,

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=599563

Hope it helps

Bhavani Shankar.

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Mike Brown (mslorteau) said :
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Thanks Bhavani Shankar for your help.
But, I just re installed the the Alacarte Menu Editor.