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bernd

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Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 11:08am

Custom Desktop Menu

Hi KDE Folks,

I'm using KDE 3.3.1-3.14 Red Hat, that's at least what the control center is telling me.

What I'm used to do is open a terminal/konsole over the right mouse
button with the desktop menu, this works with the previous installed version
of KDE.

But somehow with the current version this feature seems not to be existent any longer.

I knew that I can bind a custom menu to the right mouse button with the control
center -> desktop -> behavior.
I also knew that the config file will be strored under $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdesktop_custom_menu1.

But I do not want to miss a the useful default features of the desktop menu
and I do not want to rebuild the whole menu just to have one additional feature.

Is there somewhere the config file of the desktop menu stored, that one can
copy it to kdesktop_custom_menu1 and just do the necessary add ons?

Or any other idea, how I can get my used look and fell of the old desktop menu
back?

Thanks Bernd

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Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 12:08am

I'm not sure how this works, so can't help you.
But I can tell you where the system desktop menu is located.
on SUSE it is located at /opt/kde3/share/config/
I guess at redhat that would be /usr/share/config or /usr/kde/share/config or something like that.

You can copy that one to ~/.kde/share/config and then edit it.
If something goes wrong, just delete the copy in ~/.kde/share/config and kdesktop will default to the file in the system directory.
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Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 10:39am

Thanks, but I was loocking in /usr/share/config before, but couldn't find
the default (not custom) desktop menu config file.
How should it be called?

Bernd

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Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 1:31pm

it's called kdesktop_custom_menu1.
on suse i also have kdesktop_custom_menu2 in that directory.
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