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Wednesday, February 28th 2007, 5:45am

KDE desktop menu customisation

Hello all to all the knowledgeable KDE Admins out there.

I have a question about something which I have been battleing with for a while.

The later versions of Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora have the konsole item removed from the right mouse button menu.

You can customise the right mouse button action by
Right click -> Configure Desktop -> Behavior, and then choose the Custom Menu 1 for the right mouse menu.

(btw what is the command line name to get this menu up?)

One big problem is that this removed all the buttons available from the "Desktop Menu" which contains the default list of things that users would want to do.

I have tried without success to find the file that contains the list of the "Desktop Menu".
I have however found the /usr/share/config/CustomMenu1 and CustomMenu2 files. I would have thought that the file I was looking for was there but it isnt.

It has proven impossible to re-create the "Desktop Menu" in the custom menu as there is no option to add "Actions" to the custom menu.

If anyone out there could:

1. Point me in the direction of the Desktop Menu file so I can copy its configuration into the CustomMenu1 file?
2. Provide any tips on how to keep the "Desktop Menu" and add items ?

This it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Ben.

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Wednesday, February 28th 2007, 11:30am

Checkout kdekiosk
With kdekiosk you can determine which parts of KDE you want to disable.
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Thursday, March 1st 2007, 9:01am

Please excuse my ignorance,

How does disabling kde functions enable additions to the right mouse button menu? Is there something that I need to disable to allow me to add menu buttons? or find the file that I am looking for in my above post?

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Thursday, March 1st 2007, 9:33am

Ah, i thought you wanted to remove some of the entries, not add some 8)
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Wednesday, March 7th 2007, 10:15pm

Ahh ok. Thank you for trying to help me :)

Does anyone else out there know how to add a single konsole option to the kde desktop right mouse menu without replacing it with the single custom desktop menu1? I need to keep the entire right mouse menu and add the konsole button.

Ben.

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Monday, April 2nd 2007, 9:18am

Hi, i do have the same question ,and i search this for a long time but no result. :(

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Tuesday, April 3rd 2007, 4:10am

yes, me either.and waiting for an answer.
thanks.

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Tuesday, April 3rd 2007, 9:54am

Hi all ,have you checked the documentations about this aspect? I really can't find any material related.
I have sent mail to the author who write the documentation , but no reply now.
Still wait........

This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "apollo_dr" (Apr 3rd 2007, 9:55am)


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Monday, April 16th 2007, 1:28am

desktop menu customization

A command line tool I found was xdg-desktop-menu. Whether or not it will do what you want remains to be seen. I am fooling around with it presently.

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Tuesday, April 17th 2007, 6:28pm

KDE desktop menu customization

Never mind xdg-desktop-menu only seems to work on the main menu not the mouse menu.

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Friday, June 8th 2007, 8:47am

RE: KDE desktop menu customization

Have a look at these, I think here lie your answers:

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/t…rvicemenus.html
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-sp…ml#adding-items

I am going to try these myself. The only doubts I have are about the changed menu specifications, if any, in KDE 3.2 and 3.5 .