how to change the menu list in new customised knoppix cd

[sfit]

sir,

you mentioned
>inside het file /home/knoppix/.xinitrc is startkde
is that file (startkde)already present or we have to create it?

>kde control cntre menu editor
we tried making changes here but it did not work

please help

[arkaine23]

/home/knoppix/.xinintrc - create this file. It's contents should be a single line thats says-

startkde


Then you'd get into kde by running the command startx. And then edit the kmenu. When done, you have you edited kmenu in /home/knoppix/.kde/share/applnk. Which needs to be put in /etc/skel/.kde/share/applnk.

In addition to the menu here, there is a system-wide menu in /usr/share/applnk, and many entries there point to desktop items in /var/lib/kde/menu. These also may need some manual editing to match your edited kmenu.

[bhavin]

Hello Friends,

I am stuck up in similar problem of changing KMenu(Start Menu). I made the changes to
/etc/skel/.kde/applnk
/usr/share/applnk
/var/lib/kde/applnk
but I was unable to change my Start Menu.

Can you please reply with proper steps needed to take to change start menu. Thanking You in advance.

BK

[arkaine23]

The menus having been kicking my keister lately too. Either a knoppix script or a menu updating script is probably to blame.

I have more-or-less successfully edited my menus in the past.

The procedure was as described above from a text mode boot, I created /home/knoppix as a copy of /etc/skel. I chowned it to the user knoppix. I became knoppix and started x using the startx command and an ~/.xinitrc file. I then edited the menus and desktop settings graphically. When I was finished, I moved the original /etc/skel outside of the remastered filesystem and kept it as backup. I then renamed /home/knoppix into a new /etc/skel, and chowned -R /etc/skel so it would be owned by root.

Lately though, this has left me with a partially edited kmenu, and has left some sections of the kmenu blank where once there were apps. Some of my kicker icons work, but lose the icon I associated with them, while others both lose the icon and break- claiming they are linked to non-existent desktop entries in /var/lib/kde/menu.

The end result is that I hate the kmenu and the kicker.

[bhavin]

Even the Kmenuedit do not show me some of menu items appearing in KMenu. I can anybody please give the list of files/folders to be altered to change KMenu.
Bk

[arkaine23]

Wow, and I've had the opposite problem. kmenuedit shows all items, but my menu is missing entries. And I even checked to make sure they were not hidden...