alacarte (1)
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Title: alacarte
Author: Trevor Watkins
Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.78.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
Date: 10/26/2014
Manual: User Commands
Source: GNOME
Language: English
NAME
alacarte - Edit freedesktop.org menusSYNOPSIS
- alacarte
DESCRIPTION
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.