How to add programs to the red-hat menu

[Ryan Golhar]

Red Hat's system menus use the vfolder spec - so the menus are "virtual
folders" that are built using the XML file
/etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu This file references the
*.directory files in /usr/share/desktop-menu-files, and the *.desktop
files scattered about the system (the new default location is
/usr/share/applications).  More information can be found at
http://gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/latest/system-admin-guide.html#menust
ructure-0, and http://www.bluethingy.com/linux/rh8menu.html.

If you want to add an icon to the existing menu, add a .desktop file to
/usr/share/applications, it will look something like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Netscape Web Browser
Comment=Browse the Internet with Netscape 7.1
Exec=netscape
Icon=/usr/local/netscape/icons/mozicon50.xpm
Terminal=0
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Application;Network;X-Red-Hat-Base;X-Red-Hat-Base-Only;
StartupWMClass=Netscape

Make sure you have the categories correct for the section you want the
menu item added to.  You can get that information from
/etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu.

Hope that helps,

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Ryan Golhar
Computational Biologist
The Informatics Institute at
The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ

Phone: 973-972-5034
Fax: 973-972-7412
Email: golharam at umdnj.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of aks akscorp
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 12:23 PM
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: How to add programs to the red-hat menu


can  i add links of programs that i installed to the redhat menu like in

windows. i noticed that only a few installed softwares make there link
in 
the redhat menu. i tried to make link in the applications: folder but
redhat 
produced some errors. can anybody help?

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