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ALACARTE(1)			  User Commands 		     ALACARTE(1)

NAME
     alacarte - Edit freedesktop.org menus

SYNOPSIS
     alacarte

DESCRIPTION
     alacarte  is a graphical editor for the freedesktop.org menus that are used
     by many desktop environments. It can also edit and create application desk-
     top files.

OPTIONS
     alacarte does not accept any commandline options.

ENVIRONMENT
     XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
	 alacarte looks in the menus subdirectory of these directories for  menu
	 files. The default location for menu files is /etc/xdg/menus.

     XDG_DATA_DIRS
	 alacarte  looks  in  the applications subdirectory of these directories
	 for  desktop  files.  The  default  location  for  desktop   files   is
	 /usr/share/applications.

     XDG_CONFIG_HOME
	 The menus subdirectory of this directory is where alacarte stores modi-
	 fied  menu  files.  The  default  location  for  modified menu files is
	 $HOME/.config/menus.

     XDG_DATA_HOME
	 The applications subdirectory	of  this  directory  is  where	alacarte
	 stores  modified  and newly created desktop files. The default location
	 for these is $HOME/.local/share/applications.

     XDG_MENU_PREFIX
	 alacarte is editing the menus defined by the  file  $XDG_MENU_PREFIXap-
	 plications.menu. GNOME uses the menu file gnome-applications.menu.

GNOME								     ALACARTE(1)

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