xfce menu lacking application shortcuts

[BillieJean]

i'm wondering why xfce4 menu on my xubuntu 7.04 doesnt show all of the installed applications. i also tried the blackbox wm and i got surprised about how many things i had installed but didn't even know about them.

is there a way to make xfce menu detect all the apps by itself, like blackbox menu does?

[oz]

You have to manually add all apps that you want to show in the Blackbox menu. Look in your hidden configuration files in your /home/username folder.

For Xfce4, they only showup if you have a properly formatted .desktop entry for them in the /usr/share/applications folder. Most apps install those automatically, but some won't. Sometimes, apps will show up if you log out then back in after installing them.