GUI for editing Menu in Xubuntu

11.04

(and works for all versions since 11.04)

The use of alacarte in the current version of xubuntu is perhaps not a good choice because of its perceived gnome dependencies - it is actually packaged wrongly, but that's a different story.

Xubuntu / Lubuntu Menu editor

You could try the following java based menu editor which works for both Xubuntu and Lubuntu:

To install, download and extract into your Downloads folder

Then open your terminal:

if you havent already installed java

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre

followed by

cd ~/Downloads/lxmed
chmod +x install.sh

If the folder /opt does not exist then

sudo mkdir /opt

Finally

sudo ./install.sh

You launch the menu editor by Start - Settings - Main Menu Editor

11.10 & 12.04

sudo apt-get install alacarte --no-install-recommends

This will let you use an editor to change the menus.

Xfce 4.8 is used in Xubuntu 11.10 and Xubuntu 12.04.

Using this command to install will not bring in all the gnome dependencies that are not needed for Xfce.