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[Locked] GMenu applet (v1.1.5) shows 'Recent Documents' but no menu at all. [Bug #217]
Guest English 8 taiebot65 [Read]
31 January 2012 à 23:31

Guest, Thursday 14 July 2011 à 17:46

Hi,

I'm running Cairo-Dock on Debian Squeeze with LXDE and Openbox.
Cairo-Dock version: 2.1.3-10-lucid
Compiled date: Oct 9 2010 07:11:14
Running with OpenGL: 0

I am using that version because it is the one in the Debian repository.

The problem is that my GMenu applet (v1.1.5) shows 'Recent Documents' but no menu at all.

Having looked at the thread http://glx-dock.org/bg_topic.php?t=5510, I can offer the following information:

The *only* applications.menu on my system is:
/etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu

There are some .desktop entries in $HOME/.local/share/applications, and the rest of the relevant ones are in /usr/share/applications.

Can I work around this by placing a symlink to /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu somewhere?

Thanks.

fabounet, Friday 15 July 2011 à 14:02


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
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Can I work around this by placing a symlink to /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu somewhere?

yes, link /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu to /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu and it should be good (you need to be root)
if not, try with /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu

Guest, Friday 15 July 2011 à 15:20

fabounet :
Can I work around this by placing a symlink to /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu somewhere?

yes, link /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu to /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu and it should be good (you need to be root)
if not, try with /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu


Great! The second option did the trick in my case.
Merci tres beacoup, and keep up the excellent work.

Guest, Friday 15 July 2011 à 21:30

One small thing: I am unable to mark the thread as solved - presumably because I posted as 'Guest'.
Perhaps the webmaster could do it for me, so as to help others?

Thanks.

fabounet, Friday 22 July 2011 à 12:09


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
done

Note for me: include this case in the code.

matttbe, Friday 22 July 2011 à 14:10


Subscription date : 24 January 2009
Messages : 12573
(Message added on the task #217)

Fabounet :
Note for me: include this case in the code
Task added!

Guest, Saturday 15 October 2011 à 15:56

For what it's worth, the menu in /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu is the system-wide menu; the user-specific menu is at ~/.config/menus/lxde-applications.menu. I symlinked this to /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu and it is working great. My point in doing it this way was to avoid the need for root privileges when editing my menu.

~ Trulan

fabounet, Monday 17 October 2011 à 14:00


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
thanks for the tip

taiebot65, Tuesday 31 January 2012 à 23:31


Subscription date : 26 October 2008
Messages : 1904
(Message added on the task #217)

This bug was fixed by launching the dock using the option cairo-dock -o -e gnome or -e xfce

Problems at use | Problèmes à l'utilisation

Subjects Author Language Messages Last message
[Locked] GMenu applet (v1.1.5) shows 'Recent Documents' but no menu at all. [Bug #217]
Guest English 8 taiebot65 [Read]
31 January 2012 à 23:31


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