Chapter 3.
Menu Editing and Configuration
Tip
For detailed information describing the implementation of the menu system, refer to the Desktop
Menu Specification located at the freedesktop.org website: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-
spec/latest.
It is often useful for an administrator to add or remove items from the main desktop Applications
menu. Owing to the complexity of the menu system, modifying the Applications menu can sometimes
be a difficult task. For example, it is much more difficult to add a menu item than it is to remove a
menu item.
This chapter provides an overview of the menu system and documents methods for:
• Removing menu items for individual users
• Removing menu items for all users
• Removing submenus for individual users
• Removing submenus for all users
3.1. Overview of the Menu System
Note
This overview of the menu system is not intended to to be comprehensive in its scope. For detailed
information about the menu system, refer to the various menu-related specifications at the freedesk-
top.org web site: http://www.freedesktop.org
The Red Hat menu system is based on the the freedesktop.org Desktop Menu Specification and con-
sists of three major sets of configuration and data files:
Menu (*.menu) Files
The *.menu files are XML configuration files that specify the order, hierarchy, and merging of
both menus and menu items.
The system *.menu files are located in /etc/xdg/menus/. User-specific *.menu files are lo-
cated in $HOME/.config/menus/ and can be edited to override the values specified in the
system *.menu files.
In particular, the /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu file contains the definition of the
main application menu layout.
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