The Menu Bar of MATE in 16.04 text reads Applications Places System
How may I change that to read Apps GoTo Syst to release more panel space for other uses?
See - Change the text for “Applications, Places, System”
get a copy of the PO file for mate-panel
for your locale from the source code.
(On GitHub, click on the file, then the Raw button, then Ctrl+S to save)
Install poedit
using sudo apt install poedit
or from Boutique (under Programming).
Open Poedit and find the "Applications", "Places", "System" lines and change them to what you want. Save the new PO file; this will also create a MO file.
Copy the new MO file to the system locales folder (here using en_GB
as an example locale):
sudo cp en_GB.mo /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/mate-panel.mo
Restart the panel -- Press Alt+F2 and type:
mate-panel --replace