Hi,
I am new to linux, but I think I have cracked this problem with the
Utilities menu being too long to fit on the screen. The K menu editor
was not helpful. The following worked though:
Login as root.
startx
Open two copies of KFM (On my machine this is M->disk navigator->root->
open folder.
Click until you have opened /usr/share/applnk in both KFM windows.
Here you will find the (too full) Utilities folder.
In the first KFM window, rightclick on whitespace. Choose New->Folder.
Name the new folder MoreUtilities. You need to set the permissions for
MoreUtilities to be the same as the Utilities folder. (Right click on
the Utilities folder to see what they are).
Now go to the second KFMwindow, and open the Utilities folder. By
clicking and dragging, move about half the entries from the Utilities
folder to the MoreUtilities folder.
Exit the graphical interface.
This puts me back at the command line. We need to restart KDE, so
startx
Now you are back in KDE, and you will find the K button now leads to
both Utilities and MoreUtilities, with smaller menus.
You can now use the K menu editor to move the menus around. It is quite
good at this (Middle click and drag the menu entries to whatever
position you like).
Don't forget you are still 'root', so logout now.
I would be interested to know how the Kmenu editor manages this trick.
Ie, where are the 'attributes' that determine the menu order?
--
Mike Ashby
Quoted text follows:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ernest N.
Wilcox Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> | On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote:
> |
> | > Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> | >
> | > > Use the "utilities" box on the panel, it should roll over into another
> | > > menu "more"
> | > >
> | > > --
> | > > MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> | > > --Axalon
> | >
> | > Yeah...it _should_ but it _don't_
> |
> | I didn't say use K->Utilities, i said the utilities box _on_ the panel,
> | which does wrap as needed.
> |
> | > Guess the guy who did the menu had a
> | > 17" Monitor & forgot about 15" 14" &
> | > Notebooks....
> |
> | I'd recon it's only a 15, the thing is he didn't install everything thus
> | filling it up :)
> |
> | > I recall a thread on this a while ago,
> | > something about using the menu editor
> | > to split the utilities menu in half, but
> | > when I tried it I got the Gnome utilities
> | > menu, not the KDE.....
> |
> | If i remeber right the editor is in utilities i can see how that could be
> | a big problem
> |
> | > I usually launch apps from konsole or
> | > right clicking the screen to get a box,
> | > but it would be nice to know how to fix
> | > this......
> |
> | I prefer alt-f2 when useing kde's wm
> |
> | > -Warren.
> | >
> |
> | --
> | MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> | --Axalon
>
--
Mike Ashby
