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FatDog seems to use the GtkMenuPlus, which has a menu entry under "Utility".

Is there a way either via a configuration file or an option in the control panel to edit and customize the menu,
for example remove a menu item or add a custom item like a bash script?

Also, what would be the correct way to customize the visual appearance of the rxvt terminal (change color scheme, add transparency, change font type and size)?

The Fatdog menus are formed by what .desktop files are in /usr/share/applications

For example creating a /usr/share/applications/myscript.desktop with a content ...

[Desktop Entry]
Name=myscript
GenericName=myscript
Comment=myscript
TryExec=geany
Exec=geany
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=geany
Categories=Utility;

will add a new entry for that script under the Utility category (menu item) that in that example wont open a terminal (Terminal=false) and execute geany (Exec=geany) and show the geany icon Icon=geany ...etc. Viewing the other .desktop files in that folder provides a indication of the format.

/etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt can be edited to tweak the terminal settings. There are other tools around to do that sort of thing via a gui (can't recall the names/location).

Thanks @rufwoof Let me try that.

Gtkmenuplus allows defining a custom menu that you can run from a terminal, e.g. gtkmenuplus my_menu.gtkmenuplus, or start with a hotkey (sven is the hotkey manager in Fatdog64). A gtkmenuplus menu is defined in a text file, see the gtkmenuplus manual for details, which can be found in the devx.sfs or online here.

To customize urxvt, in addition to directly editing /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt (alternatively /root/.Xresources), as rufwoof explained, there's radky's graphical frontend here.

@step UrxvtControl-1.4 works fine. Only the background transparency option does not seem to work.

Also, is there a way to delete the entire terminal history? The man page does not seem to give an option. history -c only clears the current terminal session and .bash_history does not seem to exist.

Neo_78 wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:34 pm

@step UrxvtControl-1.4 works fine. Only the background transparency option does not seem to work.

You need to run a composite manager for this to work, e.g. compton.

Also, is there a way to delete the entire terminal history? The man page does not seem to give an option. history -c only clears the current terminal session and .bash_history does not seem to exist.

The file to delete is .history

Thanks @jamesbond that worked.