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Personally, I love Xfce4 mainly because of it’s ability to be a robust desktop and window manager without using much ram at all. The only problem I have with it is it’s menu editor. Xfce4 has a system menu which appears when you right click on the desktop – in itself, a great feature. However, if you do not have a package manager that adds .desktop files to your system Xfce4 does not offer any way to add applications to the system menu. So, time and time again, I find myself typing in command after command in my terminal because I fail to remember where the fuck the .desktop files go. When I finally give up I spend about 10 min searching Google until I find a web page that has the file string. So for anyone that wants to add anything to their Xfce4 System Menu (or any other menu in any window manager) do the following:

1. Open the terminal
2. Login to a super user shell (su)
3. cd /usr/share/applications
4. nano .desktop (replace with something you will be able to identify the app with)
5. Add the following to the file, save and exit:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Name to show in menu
Type=Application
Comment=Tool-tip Text
Exec=Command to exicute
Icon=IconIfYouHaveOne
Categories=Application;OtherCategories;