[solved] How-to add to the menu in Gnome? (Arch)

[dedanna1029]

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.

[viking60]

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?

[dedanna1029]

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

How else LOL.

[dedanna1029]

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$ pacman -Q alacarte
error: package "alacarte" not found

[viking60]

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

Do a

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sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

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

[dedanna1029]

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

Already uncommented.

[viking60]

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.

[dedanna1029]

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

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

[dedanna1029]

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



Solved. Thanks, boss.

[viking60]

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.

[dedanna1029]

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.

[dedanna1029]

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.