Oracle® Solaris 11.2 Desktop Administrator's Guide

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

Creating and Modifying User Menus

You can use the Main Menu preference tool to edit menus. Alternatively, you can manually create and edit a user menu file. For more information, see Oracle Solaris 11.2 Desktop User’s Guide .

To manually create a custom menu for a user, the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/menus/applications.menu file must exist. If the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable is not set, the default ~/.config directory is used. Because $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is the first location that is searched for the applications.menu file, the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable takes precedence over all other menu files.

User menus can contain all elements described in the Working With Menu Definition Files. For a complete list of the allowed elements, see the XDG menu specification.