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The Mad Rapper

The Mad Rapper

The Mad Rapper

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Can someone please explain exactly how to add items from the Applications menu to the panel?

Also, is it possible to get rid of the icon next to Places? If so, how?

TIA.

*Edit* Also, how do I just lock the screen when I leave my desk?
 
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Q1:

My own method is:

-Use the GUI editor to put the green "include" in a folder called "more...".
-Copy the lines which make up the folders which the editor does not see, from: ~/.cache/xfce4/desktop/menu-cache--home-[your_username]-.config-xfce4-desktop-menu.xml.xml to: ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml
-You can now edit the folders.

-When you install something trivial, it is accessible via the "more..." menu.
-When you install something you use a fair bit, use the GUI editor to give it an antry in the editable area (or copy the line from the cache xml to the config xml).




Q2:

A1: Install "xlockmore".

A2: (if you think xlockmore is fugly) De-configure your screensaver, install "xscreensaver", configure your screensaver using the xscreensaver GUI, not the control panel.

You can also use the keyboard option in the control panel to set a key combination to launch "xflock4", this will lock the screen (applies to both answers).
 
Thank you so much :)

I can't try that tonight as I have Ubuntu 8.10 installed on my other half's laptop, the Xubuntu build is on a work PC.

I saw the menu editor and had a look but it's not quite intuitive is it?
 
It's dumb is what it is, the part you want to edit is auto generated, from what I don't know.

I use xubuntu on my work machine too.


Another option for Q1:

If you make a folder next to the "include" with the same name as one of the folders you can't get to, the two will merge, and you get the contents of yours, plus the auto generated stuff. Useful if all you want to do is add things, not useful if you want to remove/move/reorder things tho.
 
Thanks from me too - been looking into this myself after installing xubuntu a month ago (also on a work PC - admitedly at home ;)). As has been said, the menu editor is anything but intuitive :D

Sorry for a slight derail - but what systems are you both running xubuntu on? I'm using a pretty old slimline Compaq Pavilion (P4 1.9GHz/300MB RAM) for when I need to play about with scripts etc, and it crawls pretty much all the time.

Looking at DSL/Arch to replace it :(
 
Lenovo ThinkCentre. No Idea what model, but it has an E6550.

Kinda had to be at IBM.

Even better is that we have local Ubuntu, Redhad, Fedora, Debian and OpenSuSE repos with Lotus Notes and all the tools we use in them. Things that are really hard to install manually.
 
I suspect I have misundertood what the op is asking but to add a launcher to the panel just right click on panel and select add ->launcher.
 
freebooter said:
I suspect I have misundertood what the op is asking but to add a launcher to the panel just right click on panel and select add ->launcher.
Click to expand...

That was one of the things I wanted to do, so thanks for that :)

The other issue was removing the icons which appear on the panel next to the main options like Applications and Places. I also want to drag the System option from the main menu and place it on the panel next to the other two.
 
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