alacarte − Edit freedesktop.org menus
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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.
alacarte does not accept any commandline options.
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.