@ Klaus2008

Greetings, Klaus; thanks for your comments.

I've also noted that lxterminal -e (in either Run or Alt-F2)
works for mc, alsamixer and less /var/log/syslog
but does not work for vrms, ifconfig, dmesg


@ Werner & Klaus

I just ran across an interesting gui editor for the LXDE menu,
or at least the apps part of the menu. Looks neat. Installs
very painlessly. Find this at

http://lxmed.sourceforge.net/

Doing away with 'Run' isn't a capability of this editor, unfortunately.