ALACARTE(1)

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version 3.58.0 · 12 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

alacarte — the lil bestie that lets you edit freedesktop.org menus 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

alacarte

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so picture this: alacarte is a graphical editor for the freedesktop.org menus — you know, the menus that so many desktop environments use to organize your apps? Yeah, that one. 👑

And not only that, bestie — it can also edit and create application desktop files. Iconic behaviour, honestly.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

Real talk? alacarte does not accept any commandline options. Not one. Zero. She's low maintenance like that 🙈

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

The whole vibe check of where alacarte looks for stuff — and where it puts your edits — is controlled by these environment variables. Pay attention, this part is giving important ✨

  • XDG_CONFIG_DIRS — alacarte goes looking in the menus subdirectory of these directories to find menu files. Default hangout spot for menu files? That's /etc/xdg/menus 🍓
  • XDG_DATA_DIRS — alacarte peeks 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 one is where alacarte stores the menu files you've modified. Default spot for modified menu files is $HOME/.config/menus 🎀
  • XDG_DATA_HOME — the applications subdirectory here is where alacarte keeps your modified and freshly created desktop files. Default location for those is $HOME/.local/share/applications 🌈
  • XDG_MENU_PREFIX — alacarte is editing the menus defined by the file $XDG_MENU_PREFIXapplications.menu. Quick lil example so it clicks: GNOME uses the menu file gnome-applications.menu 🧚
Not me ending it here but that's literally the whole page, bestie — go reorganize some menus 💀✨

okay so that's a wrap!! This lil manual page is served up courtesy of GNOME, and you just read ALACARTE(1) — periodt, mwah 💋💖

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