Adding a tool to the main menu in Kali 2.x

You might want to know how to customize your main Applications menu, so here it is.

Install the alacarte tool:

apt-get install alacarte

Now your menu has a new entry – Usual applications | Accessories | Main Menu :

The Main Menu dialog shows you the list of the first-rank menu items. In this example, we are going to put the xHydra tool into the menu structure, so do the following:

1. Highlight the 05-Password Attacks menu header.

2. Click the New Item button. This opens another dialog as shown in the following:

   

3. Add the label for the new entry.

4. Put in the full path to the tool.

5. Optionally, add a comment that will show as a Tool-Tip when you mouse over the tool.

6. Click the OK button:

   

7. Click on the box in the upper-left corner of the dialog to add (or change) the icon for the tool from /usr/share/icons and any of the themed icon sets:

   

You might want to look at the icons through the filesystem rather than through the insert image dialog, as the dialog does not show...