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ALACARTE(1)                      User Commands                     ALACARTE(1)


NAME

       alacarte - Edit freedesktop.org menus


SYNOPSIS

       alacarte


DESCRIPTION

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


OPTIONS

       alacarte does not accept any commandline options.


ENVIRONMENT

       XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
           alacarte looks in the menus subdirectory of these directories for
           menu files. The default location for menu files is /etc/xdg/menus.

       XDG_DATA_DIRS
           alacarte looks 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 directory is where alacarte stores
           modified menu files. The default location for modified menu files
           is $HOME/.config/menus.

       XDG_DATA_HOME
           The applications subdirectory of this directory is where alacarte
           stores modified and newly created desktop files. The default
           location for these is $HOME/.local/share/applications.

       XDG_MENU_PREFIX
           alacarte is editing the menus defined by the file
           $XDG_MENU_PREFIXapplications.menu. GNOME uses the menu file
           gnome-applications.menu.

GNOME                                                              ALACARTE(1)

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