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

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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
>

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determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in xfce Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2017-08-02 07:20 +0200
  Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in  xfce Lck Ras <likcoras@riseup.net> - 2017-08-02 08:20 +0200
  Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in  xfce Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-08-02 10:20 +0200
  Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in  xfce Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-08-02 14:00 +0200
  Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in  xfce Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2017-08-02 16:30 +0200
    Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in xfce Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2017-08-03 07:00 +0200
      Re: determining which apps have entries in the applications menu in  xfce Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-08-03 09:20 +0200

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