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Old 09-24-2010, 02:10 AM   #1
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Separating Gnome & xfce DE's


I notice that when I create a launcher in Gnome it then appears later on my desktop when logged into xfce. I dislike the way DE's are 'bleeding' into one another this way. Does anybody have a way to separate the lists of launchers each environment possesses so I can have different icons in each? The only way I can think of off the top of my head is commenting-out icons in my xfce config file - if that is possible. I'm after fewer icons under xfce and am happy to have the Gnome desktop fully populated with more - hope that makes sense
I'd rather not have to go through installing and setting up idesk with xfce to achieve the same result if I can avoid it.
Ditto on menues. I have my Gnome menus properly tidied up, but under xfce I still have several multiple instances of, for instance, the menu-editor app. Can you 'quarantine' these from one another as well?
 
Old 09-24-2010, 04:03 AM   #2
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The .desktop file which defines your menu entry (and whch will probably have been added in dorectory /usr/share/applications) must have a line "OnlyShowIn: " to specify that the menu entry should not be visible in all desktop menus.
Examples and explanation can be found here: http://standards.freedesktop.org/men...sions-examples

In Slackware, you can open any XFCE .desktop file to see how XFCE forces their tools to be visible in XFCE only. For instance, look at /usr/share/applications/xfce-display-settings.desktop

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