Adding items to the user menu

If you wish to add new entries to the existing user menu, you can add something like the following lines to your $HOME/.xfce/xfwmrc file.

 # Adding a menu to the default user menu :
 # (This is just a sample, modify it to fit your need)
 #
 AddToMenu "my_menu"
 + "&Gnome Terminal" Exec gnome-terminal
 + "" Nop
 + "&The GIMP" Exec gimp
 #
 # Menu "user_menu" is the name of the default user menu
 #
 AddToMenu "user_menu"
 + "&My menu" popup "my_menu"

Obviously, this is just an example. The preferred way to customize the user menu is by using a $HOME/.xfce/xfwm.user_menu file. This is always read by xfwm. The menu editor xfumed, which can be started from the default "User Menu", edits this file. The main root menu is named "__builtin_root_menu__".