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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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><P
><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
NAME="TEAROFF"
>Tearing Off a Menu</A
></H2
><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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CLASS="SECT2"
><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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