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Installing New Menu Items

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Installing New Menu Items Into Gnome and KDE

The command to use is: xdg-desktop-menu

Plausible example:

# xdg-desktop-menu install --novendor ./myprogram.desktop

myprogram.desktop looks something like:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Exec=/path/to/myprogram
Icon=/path/to/myprogram.png
Name=My Program
Categories=Application

Useful:

  • to put your icon in the pre-existing folder named Office , the Categories would be:
    Categories=Application;Office
Lots of examples in /usr/share/applicaions to look at.

Official details here: >>http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

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