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Saturday, February 16th 2008, 1:26pm

Moving from Microsoft Windows Start Menu

I've been using Microsoft Windows for the last fifteen years or so and now I'm trying to migrate completely to Linux. My distro is Backtrack 3 beta and my window manager is KDE.

In Windows, I was able to manage my Start Menu by going to:

C:\Documents and Settings\MyName\Start Menu\

, and in there there were folders and shortcuts which represented my start menu items.

Where can I find my KDE menu items? I've read that something changed with KDE 3.2, that it went from a directory structure to some sort of config file structure. I'd prefer to use a directory structure, it's much more intuitive and handy.

I installed OpenOffice yesterday but there wasn't any new items put into my KDE menu. When I go to "/usr/share/applnk", I see some of the stuff that's in my menu, but not all of it. I was navigating around my file system looking for the OpenOffice menu entries, and I found them somewhere but I can't remember the directory. Anyway, they don't show up in my KDE menu.

Can someone please give me a finite list of the places where the KDE menu stuff is stored? Also, how can I get the OpenOffice stuff to show up?

Thanks!

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Saturday, February 16th 2008, 1:41pm

You can use kmenuedit to configure your KDE menu, including addition and deletion of entries.