How To Edit Application Menu in Ubuntu

How to edit application menu in Ubuntu. Use AppEditor tool – Ubuntu edit application menu using this Ubuntu menu editor. AppEditor allows you to edit application entries in the application menu. Some of it’s features include:

• Hide and show applications from the application menu
• Create new application entries
• Change application’s display name, icon and more

Dependencies

These dependencies must be present before building

• valac
• gtk+-3.0
• granite
• meson

Install AppEditor on Ubuntu Linux using the following commands:

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flatpak
sudo apt-get update
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub com.github.donadigo.appeditor

You can also install these on a Ubuntu-based system by executing this command:

sudo apt install valac libgranite-dev meson

Building

meson build
cd build
meson configure -Dprefix=/usr
ninja

Installing & executing

sudo ninja install
com.github.donadigo.appeditor