[orca-list] [FWD: burt1iband gmail com] Re: How to access all installed applications from mate desktop?

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

This contains some bits not in the offlist message, so please read all the way through, Austin.
Reffering to the standard categorized menus shortcut:
Yes, this will show you every graphical app normally as far as I know. 
There may be an "other" category, and this is where apps that do not have keywords that put them in to 
somewhere else should be found. 
If there is no other, or you suspect something is missing, you can use the filemanager of your choice, caja 
works very well for this, and open 
/usr/share/applications/and see everything. This is independent on desktop environment, i.e. will work in 
gnome, mate, lxde or whatever. 
Most of your CLI apps will not show up there as this contains .desktop files which are the launchers files 
for GUI programs. Some CLI aps make such a file 
to launch themselves in a terminal window, e.g. elinks, or on some distros mutt even. 
Mate does a good job categorizing apps in my experience, but once in a while something indeed may show up in 
a less than intuitive place for a user.
If you go in to your settings menu I think they stiull include the menus item, may not be in prefs or admin, 
only in the grid of settings options. 
If you do still have this, there is an available category called all or something like that if I am not 
mistaken, but just opening the dir with the 
.desktop files as explained above works as well, and avaoids clutter everytime you open menus. 
If you do find a program that is not showing up in any category, let me know and I can help you to  rewrite 
the .desktop file so that it will show up where 
you like.

HTH

B.H.
   Registerd Linux User 521886
 
  austinAustin quesada wrote:
Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 01:30:12PM -0500


> Hi all. I'm wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut in orca to do
> this? I no that alt f 1 will bring up the application categorys, but
> i'm not sure how to access all installed applications, especially
> because i know sometimes that an application can be installed but not
> put in the proper place in the menu. Thanks for any help.