[Mostly Solved]LXDE - Desktop

Question

How would I be able to re-arrange desktop icons and add options in the menu?  Currently, desktop icons all stack starting in the top left and are not moveable.  As for the menu, I'm not sure how to edit it. Editing the openbox menu that I have appear on right-click would be an added bonus.  Thanks.
Last edited by JerichoKru (2010-02-09 20:49:04)

Answer 1

Gusar wrote:
anonymous_user wrote:Do you mean the menu applet in LXPanel? I know it uses the desktop files in /usr/share/applications but I don't know if you can change the categories or sort order.
You can, but it's a bit cumbersome. Copy /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu into ~/.config/menus and edit it. Changing sort order is quite simple, here an example of my Multimedia section:
<!-- Multimedia -->
<Menu>
<Name>Multimedia</Name>
<Directory>lxde-audio-video.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<And>
<Category>AudioVideo</Category>
</And>
</Include>
<Layout>
<Merge type="files" />
<Filename>xmms.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>mplayer.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>xine.desktop</Filename>
</Layout>
</Menu> <!-- End Multimedia -->
Note the 'Layout' part. The Multimedia menu will be arranged according to the order in which items are listed here.
It's not possible to freely arrange desktop icons. It will be in the new version of pcmanfm that's currently being developed.
Thanks for th help.  Editing the lxde menu doesn't look too much different from the openbox one. 
I heard somewhere that pcmanfm2 was stable enough for testing.  I'm curious to try it out but I'm not sure which is the most up-to-date, the pcmanfm-svn or the git version?
Last edited by JerichoKru (2010-02-10 16:00:44)