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I mithered on about this a bit in my last post, but after some searching and fiddling about, got to where I wanted to go. It didn’t help that on the xfce wiki a missing “/” in the code for copying a file meant any changes I made just didn’t work..

With xfce 4.6 you have the so called freedesktop.org standard for menus. I only use the right click on the desktop menu (and this will be my focus) that brings up a whole pile of extra stuff you only occasionally need, and seems to take for every to browse through the menu and sub-menu structure to find your app. The menu editor that was in earlier versions has disappeared, hopefully to come back in 4.8, but that is some time away.

The fixes and edits come in two parts.

1. Remove the extra guff from the right click menu, but have it available if you need it
2. Remove items, add items and reduce excess on the main applications menu (more…)