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Display program in menu after installing

Asked by jbb

Sometimes after installing program from "Add/Remove" or from "Synaptic Manager" Fiesty 7.1 system shows program installed ok but on looking for it in the Menu's section no such program name appears. Checking in Synaptics Manager will show that program is installed and show its revision status.
How then do I get the required program to show in the menu section so that I can select and run
same?

Thanks John

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Knut Karevoll (gnonthgol) said : 		#1

Be sure that you have loged out after you installed the programs. Then the menu is recreated with all the new config files.
The other way is to check what files was installed in the packages and look for files in /usr/bin . You can run these programs in the terminal.

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jbb (jbbritz) said : 		#2

Thanks have even rebooted several times but does not put program name in menu lists using /usr/bin is not quiet the answer that I'm looking for. Sure it works but i'd still like like to see it in the menu list Any help?
thanks john

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Best Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#3

You can right-click to edit Menus.
This will let you put any command anywhere you like in the menus.

The next challenge is to determine what the correct command is.
Usually it is the same as the package that you have installed to get it.

Can you give an example of which installs you wish to see in the menus?

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#4

Hello

I totally agree with tony

For some applications installed you will not have a menu entry.. In that case you have to use the command line for such applications to run..

One such example is astrolog

To run astrolog we have to give the following command in a terminal:

astrolog

and to find what packages are installed on your computer you use dpkg --get-selections command..

In this case it would be: (since its a program)

dpkg --get-selections | grep program_name*

Output will be:

program_name* install

* = name of the program you have installed..

Next up Icons...

Basically there are two sides to this:
  - application icons come with an application, the easiest way to change them would be to edit their launcher.
  - icons used by applications come with icon packs

**** CHANGING ICONS OF APPLICATIONS IN THE MENU ****

  1. right-click on the menu .. choose edit-menus
  2. choose an application
  3. right-click, choose properties from the menu
  4. this will open a window with properties about the menu-option
  5. click on the icon in this window
  6. select a different icon

**** CHANGING ICONS OF LAUNCHERS ****

  1. right-click on a launcher in your panel (like firefox)
  2. choose properties
  3. click on the icon
  4. select a different icon

***** ABOUT ICON PACKS *****

The icons of an icon pack are stored in two different places:
  - icon-packs installed for all users are found /usr/share/icons
  - icon-packs installed for only you are found ~/.icons

You cannot change the files in /usr/share/icons unless you are in root-mode.

**** USING A DOWNLOADED ICON ****

  1. open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)
  2. type: gksu nautilus
  3. type your password
  4. now a file browser window will popup where you are in root-mode
  5. be careful about what you do to your files now
  6. go to /usr/share/icons
  7. find your icons .. they often have them in several sizes
  8. copy your icon over the original one
  9. make sure they are the same size (each size is in its own directory)

Hope the info helps

Bhavani Shankar

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jbb (jbbritz) said : 		#5

Thanks Tony Mugan, that solved my question.