Since Gnome 3 came as a disaster, many people later switched to some directions. One of then the destination for Gnome 2 folks is XFCE Desktop. It is light, gtk+ based and highly customizable just like the old Gnome 2 desktop.
Overall we can say, XFCE is great. But there is one question about this Desktop that is not yet answered : How to make the keyboard shortcut for XFCE Menu ? In Gnome 2, or LXDE we can use Alt+F1 combination to pop up the Application menu, but how about in XFCE ?
I've sought the way but I got nothin'. In the end, I was just looking around the XFCE Desktop and I found that the shortcut Alt+F1 is used to show the XFCE4 Help page. And so, I think about replacing the executable into the command to pop the XFCE4 Application menu up.
Here are the steps :
1. Open text editor and put this simple script
Here are the steps :
1. Open text editor and put this simple script
xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu
Save as xfhelp4
2. Make the script executable
chmod +x xfhelp4
3. Rename the default xfhelp4 executable in the system to any name
sudo mv /usr/bin/xfhelp4 /usr/bin/xfhelp4.bak
4. Move the script we have made into the system
sudo mv xfhelp4 /usr/bin
5. Try to press Alt+F1
Now, I can easily access the XFCE4 menu by keyboard shortcut :)
sudo mv xfhelp4 /usr/bin
5. Try to press Alt+F1
Now, I can easily access the XFCE4 menu by keyboard shortcut :)
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