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Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:26:23 -0700
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On 06/21/2011 09:19 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> I was attempting to modify the menus on the default Gnome desktop of 
> SL 6.  In RHEL 5, this feature was available by default through a GUI 
> rather than editing files in the various menu configuration 
> directories.  The application that supplies a GUI to do this is not 
> loaded by default into RHEL 6.  Here is the relevant information:
>
> The package in question is called
> alacarte and may be installed either using the command line or the 
> Add/Remove Software tool.
>
> The actual invocation of alacarte is:
>
>
> /usr/bin/python2.4 -OOt /usr/bin/alacarte
>
> or whatever is the current version of python on the system
>
> Yasha Karant
>

Hi Yasha,

    There is a cute Java app (no RPM) out there that competes with
alacarte called lxmed.

        http://lxmed.sourceforge.net/

You may wish to look at it as well.  (I use both.)

-T

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