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 desktop 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 modified 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_PREFIXapplications.menu.
           GNOME uses the menu file gnome-applications.menu.