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Um, forgive me, I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing, but there is no option to add a program/menu entry to the kicker in Gnome like there used to be. There is also no option to move up/down menu entries, or anything:



I'd like to add xscreensaver-demo to the System menu, which I can only get to via CLI right now... how can I do this?

Thanks.

Install alacarte.
Start alacarte in terminal
To the right on the window there should be a "new entry" and "New menu" option (and the move up and down menus).

Btw xscreensaver is in your menu under programs->other after a normal install.
It is a good idea to use alacarte to add itself to the System->administration menu
I am a bit confused about your pic. though. What is it - how did you start it?

I right-clicked the kicker, and went to "Edit menus"

How else LOL.

Hmm it is in the extra repository, so you should find it if your repos are correctly set up.

Do a and look for:

[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

It should be right beneath core - if not add it and do a pacman -Syu

Already uncommented.

Yeah I was about to edit my nonsense above (Pacman -Q only gives a result for the installed stuff).
Pacman -S alacarte should do it.

So, pacman -Q isn't used to query packages in the repos? How disappointing.

Thanks, btw, that did it. Screenie to follow.

Huge diff after installing alacarte. Why it doesn't install by default, I'll never know.



Solved. Thanks, boss.

Well that is why you have the fastest distro on earth! There is absolutely no bloat in Arch. I admit it can be a bit time consuming finding all the components but man, when you are finished, everything else is like a "turtle on valium" as you would put it.
Cutting edge with stability as a bonus -thats Arch.

I use yaourt to query the repos. yaourt alacarte would have given you all the info needed. Or you could have used gtkpacman.

To be honest, I did use gtkpacman just to see if I had alacarte installed or not. Also, to get the info on it. But, I don't use it to install or remove any more.

Yeah, Arch is fast and stable 'til one gets into Namoroka and that effing plugincontainer kicks in.

Now, funny this. Just ran into the same thing in Fedora. I checked - alacarte's installed, but when I right-click the kicker, no option to Edit Menus comes up.

I checked, and alacarte's installed. I have no clue what's up with this, but I ran it via CLI and added alacarte to the menu that way.