How to remove a program from the IceWM General Menu and add application launch to the “Personal Menu”.

Introduction

On a prototype PC I installed antiX-26 ("Stephen Kapos"), which released March 2026 and is based on Debian GNU/Linux 13 ("Trixie").

Then I installed:

• Flatpak app store instructions flathub.org, with minor abbreviations

• from Flatpak installed web browser Chromium with openh264 codec(see next article "Installing the Chromium browser from Flatpak with the Cisco Openh264 codec: resolving the "Server returned status 403" error").

  sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
sudo flatpak install flathub org.chromium.Chromium

Desk -IceWM required for this article. The choice of IceWM is made in the antiX Linux menu:

• antiX - Desktop - Other desktops -Rox-IceWM
• antiX - Desktop - Other desktops -zzz-IceWM
• antiX - Desktop - Other desktops -minimal IceWM
• antiX - Desktop - Other desktops -IceWM

(Choose any of the above options).

Statement of the problem

• remove shortcut to launch Chromium from the General Menu "Applications - Internet".
• add shortcut Chromium in Personal menu.

Removing a shortcut from the IceWM General Menu

To remove an item from the general menu,
edit the file /usr/share/desktop-menu/.icewm/menu-applications

nano  /usr/share/desktop-menu/.icewm/menu-applications

Here I removed the mention of Chromium in the editor in the “Internet” menu section.

Save file and exit: Ctrl+S, Ctrl+X.

I did the same with the file

nano $HOME/.icewm/menu-applications

Save file and exit: Ctrl+S, Ctrl+X.

Adding a shortcut to the IceWM Personal Menu

Personal menu is stored in a file /home/user/.icewm/personal

nano $HOME/.icewm/personal

Add one line to this file:

prog "Chromium" /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.chromium.Chromium/current/active/files/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/org.chromium.Chromium.png flatpak run org.chromium.Chromium

where
"Chromium" is the name of the application to be displayed in the menu.
/var/lib/flatpak/app/org.chromium.Chromium/ ... /org.chromium.Chromium.png - application icon (icon).
flatpak run org.chromium.Chromium - application launch command.

Note

The developer antiX has provided a tool that should make menu editing easier:

Start Menu - Applications - Settings - Menu Manager.

You can also use it, but I found it easier to edit text files.

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