Menus under xfce and (xfce) AppFinder

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Menus under xfce and (xfce) AppFinder

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Pets created or rebuilt for Puppies take advantage of the category and subcategories available under JWM (or Barry K's implementation of it) to generate a two-pane menu: Category + slide out sub-categories displaying applications within that sub-category.
Xfce doesn't understand that system. When such a pet is installed into a Puppy using xfce, there's a good chance that most applications will be consigned to xfce's "Other" category: a not particularly user-friendly division.
Unashamedly stealing peebee's approach, the attachment to this post, can be installed to enable xfce to rationally handle Puppy categorizations. Download, unpack and follow the instructions.

xfce-menu.tar.gz
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Or install this pet.

xfce_read-jwm.pet
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In most instances use the pet. The difference is that doing it manually will enable you to create a backup of the file it will replace; and manually you could install it to /etc; while the pet installs to /root which has priority.

AppFinder was created to run under OS employing the Xfce window manager. I think it predates Whisker-Menu. In any event, it also is unable to properly handle applications written to conform to a JWM Puppy's categorization. Installing the Menu files per the included instructions 'unscrambles' the applications so that most won't be grouped in the 'Others' omelette.

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Re: Menus under xfce and (xfce) AppFinder

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@mikeslr

MIke, do you have a 32bit version of Appfinder?

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Re: Menus under xfce and (xfce) AppFinder

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Wizard, neither the pet nor the tar.gz contain binaries; only text files. AFAIK, they are both Puppy Version and architecture 'agnostic'. They were constructed under a 32-bit Puppy, and later used under 64-bit Puppys.

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