![]() ![]() The guy was me! That was me, 3.5 years ago, asking how to edit this godforsaken thing, and now here I was with exactly the same questions, and nothing had changed! As I read that discussion, I found that I was agreeing with what the guy said. My Google search led to a discussion of somebody’s question. I might summarize the situation by telling of the experience, just a few minutes ago, where I Googled for guidance, hoping that someone had perhaps developed a guide or tutorial to explain how to edit this accursed menu. I was writing this post because, once again, I found myself trying to use a Linux distribution - this time, it was Peppermint 10, an Ubuntu variant - and I was running, once again, into that uncooperative Linux Start Menu. And it was not easy at all to do that in any version of Linux that I had encountered so far. The core issue was that it was very easy to edit that menu in Windows - to copy, move, rearrange, delete, form into sub- and sub-sub-menus, and otherwise use and abuse the collection of easy-to-work-with links or shortcuts collected there. In Linux, it was variously labeled the Applications menu, the Menu button, or (at least informally, by some Linux users) the Start button or menu. When I refer to the “Start” menu, I am of course borrowing the Windows word for it, for the button in a corner of the screen, where the user could click to access a menu of tools. Mostly by using Windows instead.įor a history of this love-hate relationship, we could go back ten or eleven years, to my early Ubuntu days but more recently (i.e., 3.5 years ago) I had expressed some disappointment with the Linux Mint Start Menu, followed by another attempt, a few months later, to customize the menu in Mint 18 - followed, 1.5 years ago, by yet another attempt. With the Start Menu in Linux, I had a love-hate relationship. ![]() As noted below, I arrived at the method described here after several frustrating attempts to use the MenuLibre menu editor included in Peppermint 10. I didn’t particularly like the name “Whisker Menu,” but I could deal with it. ![]() This post provides an explanation of how I edited the menu in Peppermint Linux 10. ![]()
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