ALACARTE
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NAME
alacarte - Edit freedesktop.org menus
SYNOPSIS
-
alacarte
DESCRIPTION
alacarte
is a graphical editor for the freedesktop.org menus that are used by many desktop environments. It can also edit and create application desktop files.
OPTIONS
alacarte
does not accept any commandline options.
ENVIRONMENT
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
-
alacarte
looks in the
menus
subdirectory of these directories for menu files. The default location for menu files is
/etc/xdg/menus.
XDG_DATA_DIRS
-
alacarte
looks in the
applications
subdirectory of these directories for desktop files. The default location for desktop files is
/usr/share/applications.
XDG_CONFIG_HOME
-
The
menus
subdirectory of this directory is where
alacarte
stores modified menu files. The default location for modified menu files is
$HOME/.config/menus.
XDG_DATA_HOME
-
The
applications
subdirectory of this directory is where
alacarte
stores modified and newly created desktop files. The default location for these is
$HOME/.local/share/applications.
XDG_MENU_PREFIX
-
alacarte
is editing the menus defined by the file
$XDG_MENU_PREFIXapplications.menu. GNOME uses the menu file
gnome-applications.menu.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- ENVIRONMENT
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