Re: Isn't KDE Live ISO accompanied by an ultra-light Windows Manager, like OpenBox is with LXDE?
On Mon, 29 May 2023 11:30:52 +0530
"Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The problem with these two environment and manager respectively is
> that even if a GUI package is installed, there is no guaranty that a
> menu entry would be generated mandatorily within the menu list. For
> example, I installed `hardinfo` today, but the menu-list wasn't
> updated with a respective menu-item. "System Profiler and Benchmark",
> until I logged off and then back on to OpenBox.
>
> >From Manjaro forum I was recommended that KDE Plasma is the ideal DE
> >
> where menus are fully customisable.
>
As are they in Xfce, and everywhere else that uses the standard
freedesktop.org menu.
To make it easy, I use the Gnome package alacarte:
$ apt-cache show alacarte
Package: alacarte
Version: 3.44.2-1
Installed-Size: 534
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
<pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: all
Depends: python3:any, gnome-menus (>= 3.5.3), python3-gi,
gir1.2-gtk-3.0, gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 (>= 3.5.3), gir1.2-glib-2.0,
gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0
Description-en: easy GNOME menu editing tool
Alacarte is an easy-to-use menu editor for GNOME that can add and edit
new entries and menus. It works with the freedesktop.org menu
specification and should work with any desktop environment that uses
the spec. Description-md5: ea89a81c038b7864336ed55a2783b93b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/alacarte
Tag: admin::configuring, implemented-in::python, interface::graphical,
interface::x11, role::program, scope::utility, suite::gnome,
uitoolkit::gtk, use::configuring, x11::application
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/alacarte/alacarte_3.44.2-1_all.deb
Size: 84176
MD5sum: b7c49c1a6438bb32755d1a67d06d7455
SHA256: 32d1be88bd9f52c540ea3f6d7c10ac2b92a47ecbb78a6fee0ac5e4837b913977
To use alacarte ('Main Menu' under Settings) with one of the minor
applications that don't have an automatic desktop menu (and you may
find that your menu has an 'Other' entry which lists all these) then
you need to find its executable with whereis.
$ whereis hardinfo
hardinfo: /usr/bin/hardinfo /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hardinfo
/usr/share/hardinfo /usr/share/man/man1/hardinfo.1.gz
The /usr/bin/.. or /usr/sbin/.. is the one you want, enter this into
alacarte in your chosen category e.g. system.
If you want an icon for it, you'll need to find a suitable one and use
alacarte to select it.
--
Joe
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