Introduction

This tutorial deals with setting up a new category in the Menu.

Because this tutorial is part of my Piraeus Bank Series the new category will be called Banking.

Once you have set up a Banking category in your Menu, you will probably want to populate it with links to your banks online login page (or maybe your e-Bay or Amazon account).

This subject is covered in a separate tutorial (see links to other Piraeus Bank Series tutorials at bottom of this webpage).

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Create a new Banking category in Menu

a). Right cick Menu in the bottom left hand corner of your desktop and select Configure from the drop down menu.

b). Click on the Open the menu editor button to customise your menu entries

c). A Main Menu pop-up window opens up.

• Click on the New Menu button.

d). Type in Banking in the Directory Properties window which opens up and click on the OK button.

e). You should now have a Banking applications category in the Linux Mint Menu.

At this stage there will only be the words Banking. You still need to create a Banking category Icon.

• Right click on Banking and select Properties from the drop-down menu.
   

f). A Directory Properties window opens up with Banking already entered in the Name: data entry box.

• Left click on the image of the green folder.
   

g). Linux Mint stores its system icons in

• /usr/share/icons/Mint-X

h). I decided to use the cs-privacy.svg image for my Banking Category icon. It is stored at:

• /usr/share/icons/Mint-X/apps/96

i).The Choose an icon window opens up in the Home directory.

j). Left Click on the arrow on the left hand side of your Home button. This will take you backwards towards root.

k). Left Click on the icon of a computer. This will give you access to root and all the important system directories immediately above root .

• These are all important files which if corrupted would cause serious problems. Don't worry. You will not be able to change anything in these directories because you haven't given yourself root privaleges.

l). Your Choose an Icon window will now display all the files on the right hand side that you don't want to mess with (root, usr, tmp etc).

m). Navigate you way through to /usr/share/icons/Mint-X/apps/96

• Find and highlight usr and then Left Click on the OK button
• Find and highlight share and Left Click on the OK button
• Find and highlight icons and Left Click on the OK button
• etc

You should end up with the following information in the top left hand corner of your Choose and Icon window:

n). Once you get to the Mint-X - App - 96 icon library:

• Scroll down, highlight cs-privacy.svg and click the OK button

o). Your Directory Properties window shows you that the Banking Category Icon that you are creating now has the cs-privacy.svg image associated with it:

• Left Click on the OK button.

p). The Main Menu shows that you now have a Banking category complete with an icon of a safe.

• Remember that what you are looking at is actually the Configure Main Menu window (even though it is called simply Main Menu).

q). So lets close the Main Menu window (which we know is actually the Configure Main Menu window).

From our Desktop we can then click on Menu and see our newly created Banking category in the actual Linux Mint Menu (complete with the icon of a safe that we selected).

• Right Click on the Close button in the right hand corner of the Main Menu window.

r). Where's my Banking Category!

• I opened up Menu from my Desktop and there's no Banking Category. What's happening?

The problem is that although you have created a Banking category, it is still empty. You haven't populated it with any programs (or icons that link to specific internet webpages). Linux Mint sees no value in displaying an empty Category, so it doesn't bother.

When you first load Linux Mint there is no Games category. However if you load Majoong onto your computer (from Software Manager) a Games Category and Majjong icon will instantly appear in the Menu.

s). Click on the relevant link in the Piraeus Bank Series  section below to see how to set up an icon in the Banking category that will take you directly to the Piraeus Bank's online banking login webpage.

Once you have created an icon both your Banking category and your icon will be visible in the Menu.

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Piraeus Bank Series

Tutorials

This tutorial is part of my Piraeus Bank Series, which includes the following Community.Linuxmint.com tutorials:

• VISUAL GUIDE: Create icons on your Desktop which link to specific internet webpages.

• VISUAL GUIDE: Create icons in your Menu which links to specific internet webpages.

• VISUAL GUIDE: Create a new category in the Linux Mint Menu.

• VISUAL GUIDE: Jazz-up your shortcuts and icons with your choice of graphic images.

microHOWTO

The following microHOWTO does not warrent its own Community.Linuxmint.com tutorial, but may be of interest to people new to Linux Mint.

Click on the relevant icon below to download a copy in the format you desire.

• microHOWTO: Create a website shortcut on your desktop using "drag and drop".pdf

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References

• How to install Aptana Studio 3 on Linux Mint (Section 7-15)