Hello,
I added the Classic Menu to a dashboard, which displays the Applications, Locations (or Places, sorry i’m french), and System menus.
The problem is that the Downloads shortcut is missing from the Locations menu, while the others are there: Personal Folder, Desktop, etc.
How can I add this shortcut?
Thank you for your help.
One solution would be to modify the file:
nano ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks
to add:
file:///home/administrator/Downloads
But I'm not satisfied with this because it's not the default behavior. I've probably broken something somewhere, but I can't figure out what.
Thank you for your help.
my suggestion is to look into .config/ and edit the file user-dirs.dirs
Thank-you for your answer pavlos_kairis, but i’ve already tried this without succes. I’ve written the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs with this command :
xdg-user-dirs-update --set DOWNLOAD /home/administrateur/Téléchargements/
There still no Downloads shortcut in the Places menu.
I changed the language to fr_FR
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales # select fr_FR.UTF-8 here
localectl set-locale LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
sudo reboot
The ~/Downloads folder is there.
I’ve done
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
(fr_FR.UTF-8 was already set) then
localectl set-locale LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
and reboot.
But, as you can see on the picture : there still no Downloads shortcut in the Places menu.
If you create a shortcut for Downloads on your Desktop, could you not just drag+drop that icon into the visible menu where you want it?
Otherwise, under Preferences, you could use the "Main Manu" tool to edit the entries that are available/visible in the system menu drop-downs.
Of course, one solution could be to create a personal shortcut ; but that’s not the write way.
Normally, Places Menu should be present in the Download shortcut.
And under :
System > Preferences > Apparence (that’s perhaps not the write word, i’m french) > Main Menu
Ther’s no “Places” entry, i can just customize Applications and System items.
Hi, @ClarusAD 
Given that you've told us that your Ubuntu MATE is in French, I remembered something: please make sure that the "Language Support" setup is complete. To do that:
1 - Click on the Ubuntu MATE Menu, hover your mouse over the "Preferences" menu to show its options, and then click on the "Language Support" icon in the right column), as I show in the following screenshot (you may have to scroll down a bit in the scrollbar on that right column to get to "Language Support"):
2 - When you do that, you may then get a dialog box window warning that "The language support is not installed completely":
If that's the case, then it may be a good idea to click on that "Install" button, which will prompt you to enter your password:
... and, by doing that, the process of language support should then get completed:
After doing that, please exit and "reboot" to see if the "Downloads" / "Téléchargements" then appears correctly.
I hope this helps
If your 'Downloads' folder isn't a true folder in the traditional sense, it may be the reason for not showing up. For example, on my Mac I have my Downloads folder linked to Dropbox, which although allows me to share downloaded files among different computers, it wreaks havoc with some utilities which don't recognize it as a "regular" folder.
Ricardo, I believe there is an oversight or possible bug here.
When I installed the "Classic Menu" used by @ClarusAD, I should be able to right-click on that app to select the Edit option for that Menu tree's layout.
The problem is that the edit options presented are related to the Brisk Menu, not those that are relevant to the Classic Menu we're trying to edit. That suggests that the default location for the user's customization of the files related to each do not have a distinct location for each, which would make flipping between choices for the "default menu" a tedious task if you need a lot of customizing.
I added the "Classic Menu" as an extra App, in parallel with my own preferred "Brisk", but it seems to me that the "Classic Menu" should point to the correct "Menu Editor" for that context, if that is the App that I am trying to tweak.
I will leave that with you to consider/discuss with the "powers that be".
Thank-you for the advices @ricmarques but the downloads folder still missing
This may be related, but I just noticed that the “Bookmarks” menu is no longer available in Caja, my file explorer.
So I'm wondering: should I reinstall Caja? If so, how do I do that?
Thank you.
Hi again, @ClarusAD
@ericmarceau wrote recently (two days ago) the following answer (which was accepted as a solution) in a somewhat similar discussion topic (started by @Raphael). I suggest that you check it out and see if it applies or not to your case:
