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.\"     Title: alacarte
.\"    Author: Trevor Watkins
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.\"      Date: 04/07/2024
.\"    Manual: User Commands
.\"    Source: GNOME
.\"  Language: English
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.TH "ALACARTE" "1" "" "GNOME" "User Commands"
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.SH "NAME"
alacarte \- Edit freedesktop\&.org menus
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBalacarte\fR\ 'u
\fBalacarte\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
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\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\fBalacarte\fR
does not accept any commandline options\&.
.SH "ENVIRONMENT"
.PP
\fBXDG_CONFIG_DIRS\fR
.RS 4
\fBalacarte\fR
looks in the
menus
subdirectory of these directories for menu files\&. The default location for menu files is
/etc/xdg/menus\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBXDG_DATA_DIRS\fR
.RS 4
\fBalacarte\fR
looks in the
applications
subdirectory of these directories for desktop files\&. The default location for desktop files is
/usr/share/applications\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBXDG_CONFIG_HOME\fR
.RS 4
The
menus
subdirectory of this directory is where
\fBalacarte\fR
stores modified menu files\&. The default location for modified menu files is
\fB$HOME\fR/\&.config/menus\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBXDG_DATA_HOME\fR
.RS 4
The
applications
subdirectory of this directory is where
\fBalacarte\fR
stores modified and newly created desktop files\&. The default location for these is
\fB$HOME\fR/\&.local/share/applications\&.
.RE
.PP
\fBXDG_MENU_PREFIX\fR
.RS 4
\fBalacarte\fR
is editing the menus defined by the file
\fB$XDG_MENU_PREFIX\fRapplications\&.menu\&. GNOME uses the menu file
gnome\-applications\&.menu\&.
.RE