[xubuntu-users] XFCE4 desktop menus

[Chris Dunn]

> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:12:10 +0100
> From: Ulli Horlacher <framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
> 
> On Mon 2018-01-22 (17:00), Chris Dunn wrote:
> > Are there known problems with setting up xfce4 desktop (right click)
> > menus in Xubuntu?  
> 
> Various!

Many different varieties.

> > With a combination of MenuLibre and manually editing
> > ~/.local/share/applications/***.desktop files I have my menu pretty
> > well as I want it on another box running Debian.
> > 
> > On this Xubuntu tablet nothing really seems to work fully. I've
> > tried MenuLibre, alacarte and manually editing ***.desktop and
> > ***.directory files but after hours of effort can't get the menus
> > how I want them.  
> > 
> > Does anybody else have similar experience?  
> 
> Yes.
> 
> I do a lot of try and error.

For what it may be worth I've pretty much given up, which is really
annoying. Should it really be this difficult just to create a personal
XFCE menu?

There are certainly bugs, but whether they are in xfdesktop or in
Whisker menu or in Menulibre or some combination of them I'm not sure.
Trying to describe the problems encountered would fill a book, and would
make very heavy reading. That makes it almost impossible to file a bug
report, and then which app to file the bug(s) against?

As noted before, the process went much more smoothly on a machine
running Debian + XFCE, although not without some difficulties. The
Debian machine has xfdesktop version 4.12.4 and xfce4-popup-whiskermenu
1.6.2 compared to xfdesktop version 4.12.3 and xfce4-popup-whiskermenu
2.1.3 on my xubuntu box. Not sure how far this explains the difference
in experience. 

I did discover a new version, just released, of menulibre (2.1.4) and
really recommend that anybody trying to edit menus, upgrades to this
version. It seems to have fixed some bugs and has some useful extra
features.

Ulli, thanks for your post. At least I know I'm not alone.

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Chris Dunn