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NAME

6       alacarte - Edit freedesktop.org menus
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SYNOPSIS

9       alacarte
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DESCRIPTION

12       alacarte is a graphical editor for the freedesktop.org menus that are
13       used by many desktop environments. It can also edit and create
14       application desktop files.
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OPTIONS

17       alacarte does not accept any commandline options.
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ENVIRONMENT

20       XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
21           alacarte looks in the menus subdirectory of these directories for
22           menu files. The default location for menu files is /etc/xdg/menus.
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24       XDG_DATA_DIRS
25           alacarte looks in the applications subdirectory of these
26           directories for desktop files. The default location for desktop
27           files is /usr/share/applications.
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29       XDG_CONFIG_HOME
30           The menus subdirectory of this directory is where alacarte stores
31           modified menu files. The default location for modified menu files
32           is $HOME/.config/menus.
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34       XDG_DATA_HOME
35           The applications subdirectory of this directory is where alacarte
36           stores modified and newly created desktop files. The default
37           location for these is $HOME/.local/share/applications.
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39       XDG_MENU_PREFIX
40           alacarte is editing the menus defined by the file
41           $XDG_MENU_PREFIXapplications.menu. GNOME uses the menu file
42           gnome-applications.menu.
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