Sun Jun 8 23:43:42 PDT 2003 You can access the Debian menu hierarchy by running /etc/X11/ratmenu/debian.menu Alternatively, you can cp /etc/menu-methods/ratmenu $HOME/.menu-methods/ And then run update-menus This will create the dir $HOME/.ratmenu/ with the ratmenu scripts, with $HOME/.ratmenu/debian.menu as the root menu. Thanks to Fabricio Matheus Goncalves for this capability in ratmenu.