how to change the menu list in new customised knoppix cd

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

/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.

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

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.

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

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...