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>Menus</A
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>   In addition to the <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Main Menu</B
>, discussed in <A
HREF="mainmenu.html"
>the section called <I
>The Main Menu</I
></A
>, you can also add "normal menus" to a
   <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Panel</SPAN
>. An example menu, in this case a
   <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Favorites</B
> menu containing three application
   launchers and one submenu titled <B
CLASS="GUISUBMENU"
>Games</B
>, is
   shown in <A
HREF="menus.html#EXAMPLE-MENU-FIG"
>Figure 6</A
>. Unlike the
   <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Main Menu</B
>, normal menus only contain whatever
   launchers and submenus you place in them - no default submenus,
   <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Run...</B
> command, etc. as the
   <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Main Menu</B
> has.  You can also add any submenu of
   your <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Favorites</B
> menu or the
   <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Programs</B
> menu as a separate menu to a
   <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Panel</SPAN
>; to do so, bring up this submenu from
   the <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Main Menu</B
>,  right click on the submenu
   title, and select <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Add this as menu to
   panel</B
>.
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><B
>Figure 6. An Example Menu</B
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><A
NAME="ADDINGMENUS"
>Adding a Menu to a Panel</A
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><P
>     To learn how
    to add a menu to a <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Panel</SPAN
>, see <A
HREF="appletadd.html#ADD"
>the section called <I
>Adding objects to the panel</I
></A
>.
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><A
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>Tearing Off a Menu</A
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><P
>    All menus in GNOME have the tear-off feature: if you left-click on
    the "perforation" (thin dashed line at the top of the menu, right
    above the menu title), the menu will be turned into a separate
    window on your desktop, which will stay there even after you move
    the mouse cursor elsewhere. This is very convenient if you will be
    using the same command from some deeply nested submenu
    frequently. To remove a "torn-off" menu from your desktop, click
    on the <B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>Close</B
> button in the window title
    (its appearance and location depends on the window manager you are
    using, but usually it is the rightmost button, labelled by an "x").
   </P
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><A
NAME="MENUSCONF"
>Configuring a Menu</A
></H2
><P
>     You can easily change a menu name and icon (for user menus only,
     not for submenus taken from the <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Main Menu</B
>). To
     do so, click on the menu, right-click on the menu title (at the
     very top of the list, above all other items), and select
     <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Properties&#8230;</B
> from the pop-up
     menu. This will bring up the  <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Desktop Entry
     Properties</SPAN
> dialog, quite similar to the <A
HREF="launchers.html"
><SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Launcher Properties</SPAN
>
     dialog</A
>.
    </P
><P
>   To add a new item to the menu, click on the menu button,
     right-click on the Menu name, and select <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Add new
     item to this menu</B
>. This will bring  up
     <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Create Menu Item</SPAN
> dialog, in which you can
     enter the menu item name, comment, command, and type (see <A
HREF="launchers.html"
>the section called <I
>Launchers</I
></A
> for more information).  To remove an item
     from the menu, right-click on the item and choose
     <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Remove this item</B
>.
    </P
><P
>     Finally, a frequently asked question is "How I can change the
     font and the background used by the menus?" The answer is that it
     is determined by the current GTK Theme, which can be changed
     using the <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Control Center</TT
> by
     selecting <B
CLASS="GUIMENU"
>Main Menu</B
>-&gt;<B
CLASS="GUISUBMENU"
>Settings</B
>-&gt;<B
CLASS="GUISUBMENU"
>User
     Interface</B
>-&gt;<B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Themes</B
>.
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