Penetration Testing: A Survival Guide

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 ...