| ALACARTE(1) | User Commands | ALACARTE(1) |
NAME
alacarte - Edit freedesktop.org menus
SYNOPSIS
alacarte
DESCRIPTION
alacarte is a graphical editor for the freedesktop.org menus that are used by many desktop environments. It can also edit and create application desktop files.
OPTIONS
alacarte does not accept any commandline options.
ENVIRONMENT
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
alacarte looks in the menus subdirectory of these
directories for menu files. The default location for menu files is
/etc/xdg/menus.
XDG_DATA_DIRS
alacarte looks in the applications subdirectory of
these directories for desktop files. The default location for desktop files is
/usr/share/applications.
XDG_CONFIG_HOME
The menus subdirectory of this directory is where
alacarte stores modified menu files. The default location for modified
menu files is $HOME/.config/menus.
XDG_DATA_HOME
The applications subdirectory of this directory is where
alacarte stores modified and newly created desktop files. The default
location for these is $HOME/.local/share/applications.
XDG_MENU_PREFIX
alacarte is editing the menus defined by the file
$XDG_MENU_PREFIXapplications.menu. GNOME uses the menu file
gnome-applications.menu.
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