[xubuntu-users] modifying/editing "All Settings" menu?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:17:50 +0100, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>I have heavily configured xfce: keyboard shortcuts, window action, etc
>I suppose I have to redo it all with openbox?
>(How) Can I replace xfwm4 with openbox and return to xfwm when I am not
>happy with it?

Hi,

I never tested Xfce4 with another window manager. I completely migrated
to openbox without any desktop environment at all. For both, my Ubuntu
and my Arch Linux install.

For Arch Linux I still have Xfce4 installed.

While running a Xfce4 session, for testing purpose you could
try running

  openbox --replace

and then

  xfwm4 --replace

they've got different config files, so editing one wndow manager
doesn't affect the other one.

At the moment I'm running a clean openbox session without Xfce4 or
any other desktop environment on an Arch Linux install, so I can launch
some Xfce4 menu related apps.

If I launch

  $ xfdesktop

or

  $ xfce4-appfinder

the menu entries look ok.

You have taken a look at xfce-settings-manager.desktop, but your
screenshot seemingly displays multiple exo-mail-reader.desktop entries.

What is the content of the link "menus -> ../../../.config/menus​"?
I've got .config/menus/, too, but no link in .local/share/applications/ .

Consider to backup your home first. Then to add a new user. After that
start a default Xfce4 session for that new user and at last to replace
the old user's directories .config/menus/
and .local/share/applications/ with content by the default directories
of the new user. "Replacing" means that you first move away the old
directories with their content. This would affect other desktop
environments, too, assuming you should not only use Xfce4, but since
you have got a backup and the moved old directories, you could restore
them.

Don't forget to recursively run "chown" after coping the directories
from the new, to the old user.

Regards,
Ralf