Alacarte is an easy-to-use menu editor for GNOME-2 (used until Ubuntu 11.04) 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.
Questions tagged [alacarte]
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How can I add and change items in my Applications Menu?
Occasionally I would like to either remove/disable menu entries or add launchers for programs to my Applications list- how can I do this?
Marco Ceppi
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How do I edit applications panel menu in Lubuntu?
Main menu (alacarte) cannot record changes as it should. Some time it does, but randomly and rarely.
Is this a bug?
This question is not a clone of this one. In that case the Main menu would not open, in this case it does but changes are rarely…
user47206
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Where does Alacarte store the file with the edited menus?
I'm trying to import some settings unto a new machine, I've edit the Menus and removed some categories and removed some entries but I don't know where does Alacarte stores the file which contains all of that information.
How can I find this file (if…
Uri Herrera
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App switching panel not showing correct icon
I added the desktop entry for Pycharm using alacarte app
Now, the entry can be searched/opened via the app search and it shows the expected results, ie, correct name and icon.
But when it comes to the app-switch panel (i.e., when you press Alt+Tab…
JPG
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How can I get the original contents of applications.menu and settings.menu?
I just want to know the exactly original content of these two files: ~/.config/menus/applications.menu and ~/.config/menus/settings.menu. Mine were changed after some alacarte testing and now I want to revert all the changes as in the original…
Paulo Freitas
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How do you create a program launcher with administrative privileges using Alacarte?
How do you create a program launcher with Alacarte (Main Menu) that has administrative privileges? I ask because I seem to have deleted the launcher for Synaptic Package Manager and whenever I start it with the command, 'Synaptic' I have to run it…
Josh Pinto
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How to rename gnome-shell launcher application name without Alacarte?
Pity that gnome-shell's launcher shows only a few characters of the application's name. That's why I'd like to rename e.g. "web-browser firefox" into just "firefox".
Previous versions of gnome had a working Alacarte program which allowed to do what…
user73331
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Why does Alacarte give me this error when I try to add items to the menu?
When I try to add anything to the menu in 12.04, I get this error.
$ alacarte
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 317, in on_new_item_button_clicked
process =…
RichardoC
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List Installed Applications Grouped By Type
I want a list of the applications installed in my system, however, I only want the ones listed as per the start menu.
I am not interested in a list of packages / dependencies etc so the following is not that helpful:
dpkg --get-selections | grep -v…
opticyclic
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Can't create a new menu with Alacarte
I can't create a new menu with Alacarte in Ubuntu 16.04.
When I want to create a new menu, the Accept button is always disabled.
JuanAndres
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Gnome Menu Broken?
I think my Applications Menu (the top right in Gnome Fallback) is broken or something. I was messing around with MenuLibre and after I closed it, an additional "System Tools" menu appeared above Accessories containing a "folder" only containing…
Bentley Carr
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Alacarte menu editor not working
lubuntu 20.04
Alacarte menu editor doesn't work for me. The changes I make are not saved, or not as I make them. For example, I added a link to alacarte itself in the main menu, but the link appeared in the Other submenu. Same thing with any other…
DanW58
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How to generate automatically all *.desktop files?
I'm using Xubuntu 14.04, as app menu I use the default app and the menu editor is Alacarte.
I have been editing the menu entries and made a total mess. So I decided to delete the *.desktop files.
I have deleted all *.desktop files…
user445444
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How can I move items in Alacarte?
I would like to be able to move (i.e., drag) application launchers from menu to menu within Alacarte, but for whatever reason I cannot. I realize this question is basically identical to a previous question of mine but this time I am on 15.04 and I…
Josh Pinto
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Cannot add an application to the launcher
I've downloaded Eclipse and I want it to be on my fast-launching dash bar but the problem is that, as you all probably know, Eclipse does not install but is inside a normal archive.
So I tried to make my own .desktop file and placed it in…
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