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Add the Whisker menu to your XFCE panel
- Go to the Items tab.
- Click the Plus button to add a new item.
- Select the Whisker Menu and click the Add button.
- Close the Add New Items dialog.
- With the Whisker menu item selected, click the Arrow Up button a few times to bring it to the top.
How do I add icons to Xfce?
Go to Xfce-look.org to find and download an icon theme set you like (such as the one below), extract it, and put it in the . icons directory in your home directory. To select the icon theme, go to Settings > Appearance > Icons.
How do I add icons to XFCE?
Change Your XFCE Theme
- Select the Applications menu on the desktop.
- Choose Settings > Appearance.
- Select the theme that you want to try. When you select a theme, it is applied to the desktop, and you can see what it looks like.
- Go to the Icons tab at the top of the window.
- The icons work similarly to the other themes.
How do I open XFCE Settings?
To run xfce4-settings-manager in XFCE, navigate to the applications menu in your panel, go to “Settings” and then select “Settings Manager.” Alternately, you can open your terminal emulator and type “xfce4-settings-manager” and press enter to launch the program.
To add Whisker Menu, add an item to the panel as usual and search for Whisker Menu. The default Whisker Menu can be customized to work the way you want. To customize Whisker Menu, right-click the item from the panel, then select Properties.
There is a list of the well-known categories for the standard X Windows system desktops so if you want to add your menu to those standard categories (such Accessories, Internet, Office, System, etc) the you should provide the standard category name. More info can be found at Xfce Wiki and Desktop Menu Specification web page of freedesktop.org.
Which is an example of an icon in Xfce?
As an example, I often run remote sessions using VNC and at the moment I can only start the VNC viewer from the terminal. Ideally it would have an icon/item so that not only it would be visible in the menu, but I could also select it as a ‘favourite’ (easy-to-reach) item in the Whisker Menu.
How to create a desktop file in Xfce?
You’ve to create .desktop file in /usr/share/applications directory if the entry is targeted to all user or in $HOME/.local/share/applications directory if the menu entry is just for you Name: put here the name of the application.
For example, to copy the Web Browser’s .desktop file to the .local/share/applications directory in your home directory ($prefix = /usr on most systems): If you want to hide menu entries from all menus, copy their .desktop files and edit them to add a NoDisplay=true line.