Adding Items to Start Menu in RH 8

[torvalds]

I am new to Linux. I just installed Red Hat 8. I have ran into a similar problem that I noticed in an earllier post. I tried to install a package and it did not add a short cut to the start up menu.

I could use help with two things.

One is to understand the Linux file structure. I am used to Windows and am not sure where to look for the program that I installed. What directory do most programs install into?

Also, what is the easiest way to edit the start menu (add items, move items)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!

[Gaston]

Check this out:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/getting-started-guide/

Nautilus will help you out to browse your file "windows style"
but if you want to get serious about linux, you want to learn
to use terminal and get familiar with commands like ls, find, cd,pwd, cat, etc, etc, check this out:

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Command_Reference

also "man command" will give you loads of extra info, for
example "man ls" and "man man" can be quite useful.

looking for a program you installed, open a terminal and
then do:

"which programname" or "locate programname", for
example "which netscape"

[Hayl]

redhat made it really annoying to edit their menu. do a search on these forums and you will find the names of the files you need to edit to change the menu in redhat.

imho their lack of an easy way to edit the menu makes the O/S unuseable as you have to use redhat rpms to install everything or you don't get a men entry.

it's too bad they couldn't have amde it easy to edit the menu like in *box or waindowmaker or at least provided a tool to do it with.

[torvalds]

thanks for the help
i used the terminal and found the program quick
looks like i will be spending some time learning the commands, you know there is some benefit in browsing "windows style" but the which command found it a lot quicker

it is a shame that redhat has made it difficult to edit the start menu, i will read some of the previous posts for info on how to edit

[Crutch]

well, editing the menu is not as big of a deal as everyone is making it out to be. If you installed KDE in addition to Gnome, then you can bring up a terminal and type:

# kmenuedit

it's the KDE menu editior, but it works just fine for editing the redhat menu.