


~/Library/Application Support/XMenu/Custom Copy and paste the following text into the Go to the folder: field and click the Go button:.Open a Finder window and select Go from the Menu Bar and then Go to Folder… from the drop-down menu.Don’t bother clicking it yet, there’s nothing there. This time a ‘heart’ icon will appear in your Menu Bar.Return to the XMenu Preferences and this time place a check in the box next to User-Defined.Ta-da – all of the files and folders in your Documents folder are now just two clicks away.A new icon will appear in your menu bar – one that looks like two ‘documents’.User Defined is a menu that you can really customize (and we’ll cover it in depth a bit further down) and the last menu is Snippets, which we’ll also cover in detail. The third item is Home, which will display a list of all the files and folders in your /Users/ “your-user-name” folder. The first is Applications which we’ve already covered, the next is Developer which if enabled will display a menu like the Applications one, except it will only display the Apps listed in /Developer/Applications (which most of us don’t even have or use). The first section contains all of the items that can be displayed in the Menu Bar. From here you can really customize XMenu.To further configure XMenu, select the “A” icon again but this time choose XMenu and then Preferences….If you select any of your Apps from this list, they’ll open. A list of all your Applications will appear.When XMenu opens for the first time, one or more new icons will appear in your Menu Bar.Once you’ve entered your password, place a check in the box next to XMenu.app When the System Preferences open select the small ‘lock’ icon in the bottom left corner so that you can make changes. You’ll be prompted to allow XMenu to control your Mac.If it does, just minimize it for now and give it a review later. Once the installation has completed, the XMenu Help file may open.
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This detailed step-by-step guide will show you how to add icons to the Menu Bar on your Mac that allow you to launch Apps and quickly access files or folders.
