Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/04/2020 07:38 AM, n...@dismail.de wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 06:53:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I'm using Debian10 with the MATE desktop. >>> The Debian installer defaults to installing a mess of applications I rarely >>> want. They end up with entries on MATE's Applications sub-menus. >>> >>> Without deleting the offending applications from the system, how can I >>> delete those menu entries and replace them with links to suitable >>> applications. >> >> MATE has graphical editor for this. If not already installed, the package >> is named "mozo" as is the tool itself. > > How would one discover that? I've silently been grumbling about the > problem since Debian first had MATE as a default option.
reading the website, following links: https://mate-desktop.org/ https://github.com/mate-desktop/ > When today's web search turned up nothing I was both frustrated enough > and in enough need to post. > >> Otherwise you could try to edit the relevant .desktop files manually. > > Where are they? How would I even know they existed? > I installed "mozo" and the "go to system, preferences, look and feel, > main menu" to which Peter Ehlert referred magically appeared. usually reading source code can give some information. also looking at the list of files a package installs can be interesting. apt-file list mozo songbird
