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I just started up an application that created an shortcut icon in the applications menu of xfce4. However, I moved the entire application to /opt (This is a good place to put non native package managed applications right?) and so the shortcut now doesn't find the bin, because well its not there anymore. I can make a symlink to patch this, but that's ugly.
Where does xfce4 keep its shortcuts text for its applications? (just can't find it, tried looking in ~/.config)
If you mean the contents of the "Applications" menu, I don't know off hand exactly where it is stored but it can be configured through the alacarte application (at least, that's the case in Debian's Xfce 4.8).
It should be listed as Applications -> Settings -> Main Menu; otherwise, just run it like some other application through the Run dialog or through a terminal.
Panel launchers simply need a right-click, Properties and Edit the currently selected item (bottom button to the right) to access the invocation command.
As for your choice of /opt, it seems the FHS prefers /usr/local but /opt should be acceptable as well.
alacarte application and trying to do a right click on the icon has the effect of a left click, aka its trying to start it up anyway. Not sure what to do besides the symlink now.
– Edgar Aroutiounian
Aug 17 '13 at 11:01
Well, after digging for some time, I did actually find it.
For me, it was located at
/home/edgar/.local/share/applications and there was the application's .desktop file (basically a config file).
