LIke to add items to GUI XFCE Settings Manager

[Dutchy]

Hello

Using XFCE 21.1, Xfce 4.16

Somehow deleted items form Gui Settings manager
Like to add them again.
How can I do that ?

Thanks
Dutchy

[michael-hi]

It's difficult to know what you might have done that would delete items from there accidentally. Anyway, this post on Xfce's own forums explains how to add items to the Settings Manager GUI so it may help in your situation:
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=15263

Basically you go to /usr/share/applications and edit (as root) the .desktop file of the setting you want to add. If it's the Keyboard settings for instance, you would add X-XFCE-SettingsDialog;X-XFCE-HardwareSettings; to the end of the Categories line in the file xfce-keyboard-settings.desktop

Or have you deleted those individual settings altogether from your system, so they aren't even in the menu any more? Maybe a complete reinstall of the xfce4-settings package would help.

[Hoser Rob]

It's difficult to know what you might have done that would delete items from there accidentally....

I'm stumped there.

... Maybe a complete reinstall of the xfce4-settings package would help.

That'd be a very good thing to try, though "complete reinstall" might make it sound scarier than it is. I would go into synaptic package manager, hit the search button and find xfce4-settings, and then hit "mark for re-installation". In synaptic marking doesn't install or remove anything, you need to hit the Apply button. And read what messages there might be.

[Dutchy]

Ahhh, thanks a lot
Ill try option 1 first and resort to reinstall later. Thats because I like to understand how things work.
Cheers, Dutchy