What is the default configuration for the XFCE menu?

Question

I accidentally messed up my xfce-applications.menu file in /etc/xdg/menus ..... :(

Does anyone know what the default configuration is for this file?

Let's hope I learn my lesson of messing with the original file...

Answer 1

I am using the ppas for Xfce 4.10 and 4.12 on Xubuntu 12.04, but I think /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu will be the same as in your version. I have pasted it at Ubuntu paste, so you can retrieve it and reinstall it, logout and login again (but see my notes below).

The menu is in the package libgarcon-common:

libgarcon-common: /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu

so this is useful to know, but a reinstall of the package won't replace the config file, and purging the package so it removes the config file would remove a lot of Xfce, so those really aren't options.

Another option would be to download the package from Ubuntu packages (or from the ppa if using one) for your particular Ubuntu version and extract the deb with your archive manager and manually copy xfce-applications.menu to /etc/xdg/menus with:

sudo cp ~/location/of/xfce-applications.menu /etc/xdg/menus

It is also best to edit the menus in /home/$USER/.config/menus, then you can use the menus in /etc/xdg/menus to replace them if you make any mistakes.