Raul Acevedo wrote:
Mythical Proportions wrote:This question has come up over and over in the forum - the best answer I have seen is that the menu configuration is stored in: /etc/X11/desktop-menus/application.menu
> 2 GNOME questions for you... > 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu. In M$
> you can click and drag items around the start menu, but it doesn't
> appear to work like that in GNOME. What conf file controls the gnome
> menu (both per user and globally)?
YES!!! How do you do this? The menu editor from GNOME 1.4 is gone...
It is in XML and the format is not documented but it can be figured out with a bit of study. Would be nice to have the menu editor back though.
> 1 just general query for good measure:
> 3) I want to start tarring my home folders for backup. I know you can
> tell tar to exclude certain files/folders, but I can't seem to get the
> syntax write based on the man and --help stuff. I want to exclude one
> folder within /home/user1 that has music files. > So... #: tar -cvz archive.tar /home/user1 > doesn't cut it. Anyone have any advice?
tar -cvz archive.tar --exclude=/home/user1/DirToExclude2
--exclude=/home/user1/DirToExclude2 /home/user1
Raul
Lou
