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Arrow key/Enter menu

How to create a menu in a shell script that will display 3 options that a user will use the arrows keys to move the highlight cursor and press enter to select one?
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How can I add an application to the Favorites section of the Applications menu in CentOS 7?

I have created a custom application entry in the applications menu for Eclipse as follows in a file /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop as follows [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Eclipse …
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What is the file location of GNOME favorites?

I want to directly inspect the contents of my GNOME favorites bar. What is the file location for this bar? (Similar questions focus on creating custom .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications, setting the WM_CLASS, and pinning the running…
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Right click menu in Nemo missing 'create shortcut' and 'copy/move to'

I recently did a clean install of Linux Mint 17.3 with Cinnamon on my machine. Before the clean install, if I right clicked on a file or folder in nemo, the menu would have a 'create shortcut' option. Now after the clean install, that option isn't…
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Centos 7/Gnome Applications menu items don't respond

I have CentOS 7 installed with gnome. After some uptime, no items under the 'Applications' menu respond.* I can open the menus and submenus and hover over items with the mouse pointer. They will highlight correctly, but they do not respond to…
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Add a new Nautilus context menu action without using `nautilus-actions`

I am posting this in order to provide an answer, as a way to have a simpler method than using nautilus-actions (launched with nautilus-actions-config-tool), while avoiding to write each time an entire action file from scratch. On the other, while…
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Add icons/menu items for applications in XFCE

I am running Debian (Stretch) with XFCE and many applications do not appear in the menu (in my case Whisker Menu). As an example, I often run remote sessions using VNC and at the moment I can only start the VNC viewer from the terminal. Ideally it…
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Prevent KDE and Gnome from showing eachothers icons in the menu

Often, I have both KDE4 and Gnome installed on my machines. What really bothers me when I do this, is that the Gnome menu will show all kinds of things that I will hardly ever use in Gnome, like Konqueror, KMail and Konversation. (Just to name a…
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gnome terminal: how to enable menu bar by default permanently

I updated recently to fedora 31 and lost menu bar in gnome-terminal. I can enable menu bar for a single terminal session by right mouse press->enable menu bar. But there is no option to enable it permanently. I already found: Gnome Help But there is…
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byobu configuration menu escape / exit always closes the tab

I've been using byobu for ~4 years at this point and I do not remember this behavior before. If I press F1 (this always happens by accident actually, with the exception of initial setup I never want to see this menu again) which brings up the byobu…
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Search through kernel make menuconfig configuration menu entries

When I run make menuconfig inside /usr/src/linux directory, the kernel configuration wizard appears. How can I search through the menu entries inside the make menuconfig wizard? I've tested /, but / it appears that / searches only through the…
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Create url link in menu

How can I create a menu item that points to a URL? I've tried creating a mylink.desktop entry like this: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=My Link Name Icon=my-icon Type=Link Categories=Office; URL=http://www.example.com/ then using…
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What can I do when apt-get/aptitude doesn't create a menu item for an installed program?

Obviously, this question is specific to Debian-based setups. I find that, often, packages I install using aptitude or apt-get only say that a menu item has been created. No menu item actually appears. Obviously, I can create one myself, but that…
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How to set title of Terminal in Linux Mint 18

I upgraded to Linux Mint 18; everything went well. I don't know if it was intentionally done like this or not, but the option Terminal -> Set Title is no longer there, and the shortcut is no longer available. Why this change has been made, and how…
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Remove icons in gnome application menu

How can you hide unwanted apps from the gnome app menu? I've installed alacarte/main menu, unticked the apps but they still appear. I've also checked in /usr/share/applications and viewed one the apps I don't want to appear and it says…
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