Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in xfce

[Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 10:12:55PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
> I'm using a pretty vanilla debian 9 with xfce.
>
> There's an Applications menu in the upper left which has lots and lots
> of applications listed under multiple submenus.
>
> There's a program that i have on my system whose name i cannot find in
> the Applications menu.
>
> However, that might just be because i conducted a defective search.
>
> So i'm wondering if there's a systematic way to determine if the
> program is in the menu.  (Presumably it is a matter of looking in
> /usr/bin or something like that, although that cannot be the complete
> solution as there are a few thousand programs in /usr/bin, and they
> cannot all fit in the menu.  So i suspect there's a list somewhere . .
> . )
>
> TIA for any clues on this,

Just as an alternative solution, you might find the XFCE Whisker Menu
more user-friendly. Especially if you're used to the Windows 7-style
start menu. 

If you install 'xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin', you can then right-click on a
panel, select "Add to Panel" and choose the Whisker Menu. Click the
button and you should see a panel with two panes - one side is a list of
applications, the other side is a tree of folders. All familiar so far.

At the bottom of the panel, though, is a search box. If you type a few
characters of the name of the application in there, you should see
matching entries display in the pane above.

> dan

--
For more information, please reread.

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: PGP signature