Zorin Home Menu Customization

Customization
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In the Zorin Home menu list where the Photos, Music, Documents etc are, is there anyway to change the order or position of each section?

I really prefer to have Photos and Videos merged into one section and the Templates and Public sections right at the bottom.

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Zorin menu > System Tools > Main Menu application

You can create whatever folders and icons in each folder that you want, and arrange them however you want.

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I can't find the System Tools option, where is it exactly?

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Should be second to the bottom on the Zorin menu.

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You can also start the menu editor by opening Terminal, and entering:
alacarte

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Ok I got to move around somethings but I still can't find the option to move around my home menu list...

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2 posts were split to a new topic: Alacarte terminal errors

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You can create entire new folders and populate those folders with the shortcut icons to the applications you want (and with sub-folders). Just look at the existing icon Properties of the applications to find out what to put into the dialog box when you're creating a new shortcut.

If you want to move an icon or a folder up or down, select it, then click the Move Up or Move Down buttons at the right-hand side of the application... although, my Zorin menu is alphabetically sorted, and I can't find any way to sort it differently or rearrange it. So moving the icons and folders in the Main Menu application may have no effect upon the Zorin menu sorting.

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The right pane can seem obtrusive. I've already bought Pro but haven't installed it because it's cumbersome to do.

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I can open the Main Menu application, but it doesn't let me make almost any changes, and those it appears to permit, don't show up in the actual Menu.

Anyone know if there is something that I needed to do to enable the Main Menu application?

Thanks,
Pete

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@Pete, please see this thread here:

if it may help you to examine the Menu Editor and how it works.

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Thanks! Yes, it helped a lot. The issue I had was that you need to assign an icon before it will accept the new menu or menu-item. Having to do that makes sense in a way, but also not.

(When you're adding/changing something, click on the icon to choose a new icon. A lot of icons in .cache/gnome-software/icons and in apps' own folders.)

Thanks again!

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