Problems at use | Problèmes à l'utilisation
Lockheed, Tuesday 04 October 2011 à 17:46
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Subscription date : 13 January 2010
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...after today's Arch update which included a lot of gnome elements.
I had to use gmenu even though I have XFCE because due to Python issues in Arch no other menu system for Cairo Dock works.
Anyway, the button that used to launch gnome menu disappeared from my dock and I miss access to most of my programs. Why did it happen and how to remedy it? |
thomasj, Wednesday 05 October 2011 à 19:17
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Subscription date : 05 October 2011
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I have similar issue. I tried to drag over gnomenu from the website and it is there, but clicking on it does nothing.
I think in this latest sys update a new version of gnome was released so maybe that broke it.
Any help would be appreciated here as well. thanks |
Guest, Wednesday 05 October 2011 à 20:13
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I get it back to work but I am not sure if this is what helped:
If you are on arch, install from AUR gnome-menu2 |
Guest, Thursday 06 October 2011 à 03:59
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I have the same problem. It happened after the gnome 3.2 update came through. I have gnome-menus 3.2.0.1-1 installed. I am not sure its very good idea to rollback to an older version. BTW, I am using Cairo-dock as the all-in-one solution for panel/menu/systray with Compiz standalone. Is there any other solution? How does cairo-dock read the menu? xdg_menu works fine in terminal.
Many thanks.
rsk02 |
fabounet, Thursday 06 October 2011 à 16:00
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Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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the dock needs libgnome-menu (which is actually not gnome-dependent at all, it's a generic library to parse the standardized *.menu files and build a menu).
there is no other requirement. |
Guest, Thursday 06 October 2011 à 19:52
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- Looks like this issue is only going to spread from what I found below:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=999639
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26191?project=0
I tried what was recommended in the first link. I installed gnome-gmenus2 from AUR. Even recompiled cairo-dock several times. I still don't have the application menu.
rsk02 |
Guest, Thursday 06 October 2011 à 20:49
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Update:
I installed (and reinstalled) gnome-menus2 from AUR and reinstalled xdg menus for ARCH. I think I did a lot of other dinking around too but don't remember enough to reproduce here. Finally ended compiling on my own as the AUR version cairo-dock 2.4.0-2 and plugins just would not compile (complaining of gio error). So, when compiling I saw that Gmenu applet was being built even though it complained about missing dbusmenu-glib and dbusmenu-gtk. Finally, I have a working applications menu. I think I will have to stick to compiling my own dock from now on.
On a separate note, I think Compiz+cairo-dock qualifies as a DE in its own right. I am using bits and pieces of Openbox/LXDE for some functionality but haven't found anything else that works as well as Cairo-dock with compiz-standalone. It gives you task bar, menu and systray all in one nifty app.
rsk02. |
fabounet, Tuesday 11 October 2011 à 17:23
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Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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dbusmenu-glib and dbusmenu-gtk are used by other applets, not the GMenu one.
I'm surprised you had so much trouble just to install the libgnome-menu.
maybe Tofe could help here, I think he runs Arch.
On a separate note, I think Compiz+cairo-dock qualifies as a DE in its own right. I am using bits and pieces of Openbox/LXDE for some functionality but haven't found anything else that works as well as Cairo-dock with compiz-standalone. It gives you task bar, menu and systray all in one nifty app.
I couldn't say it in a better way |
Problems at use | Problèmes à l'utilisation
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