jgmenu-lx(1)

jgmenu-lx1

Generate jgmenu flavoured csv menu data

Usage

jgmenu_run lx

Overview

jgmenu_run lx generates jgmenu flavoured CSV menu data for freedesktop.org defined application menus, using LXDE's libmenu-cache.

Environment

XDG_MENU_PREFIX

This can be used to specity a .menu file. For example, XDG_MENU_PREFIX=lxde- will load lxde-applications.menu

JGMENU_NO_DIRS

If set, applications will be listed without a directory structure

JGMENU_NO_PEND

Do not read append.csv or prepend.csv

JGMENU_NAME_FORMAT

See csv_name_format in jgmenu(1)

Known issues

xfce-applications.menu is not parsed correctly.

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–Arch

Authors

Johan Malm.

From jgmenu 4.6.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.