Sat, 09 Apr 2005, by suse@lordsargon.com:
How do you add items to the xfce menu or panel which run as root? It is easy in KDE, but I can't find an answer through Google (must have the wrong search criteria).
I happened to write about that in a.o.l.s. today. Here it is. You'll notice that SuSE doesn't make a nice application menu in Xfce4, like it does in e.g. KDE. If you install and run xfce-menu, and make links in /usr/share/applications/ from directories where other window-managers keep their *.desktop files, Xfce4 automagically makes a menu structure with all the applications on your system. cd /usr/share/applications ln -s /opt/kde3/share/apps kde2 ln -s /opt/kde3/share/application kde ln -s /opt/gnome/share/applications gnome There's one snag: Xfce seems to rebuild that menu each first time you use it after leaving the wm, so it's a bit slow that first time. Adding items to the panel is a matter of right-clicking on the achors at the ends, and choosing "Add new Item". Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info.