Editing menu entries

Unfortunately Lubuntu does not provide a graphical way of editing the menu, so this has to be done "by hand". The process is very easy however, and all you need to do is to create a .desktop file. These files are normally placed in:

/usr/share/applications

User specific entries are placed in:

~/.local/share/applications 

Here is an example called matlab.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Matlab
GenericName=Matlab R2010b
Comment=The Language of Technical Computing
Exec=matlab -desktop
Icon=/usr/local/MATLAB/R2010b/matlab_icon.png
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Categories=Development

• [Desktop Entry] - Indicates that this file is a .desktop file.

• Encoding=UTF-8 - UTF-8 encoding is used.

• Type=Application - Desktop file is starting an application.

• Name=Matlab - Displayed name in the menu.

• GenericName=Matlab R2010b - Description of the entry.

• Comment=The Language of Technical Computing - Comment will be displayed when hovering above entry.

• Exec=matlab -desktop - Path of binary (with flag) that will executed.

• Icon=/usr/local/MATLAB/R2010b/matlab_icon.png - Path to icon to be used.

• Terminal=false - The program will not run in a terminal.

• StartupNotify=false - Startup notification is turned off.

• Categories=Development - Specifies the categories in which the entry will be placed in the menu. Several categories are specified with a semicolon between them, e.g. Development;Education , a list of standard categories can be seen here.

Note: You may have to log out or restart LXPanel for changes to take effect.