Andrewski Posted January 5, 2004 Report Share Posted January 5, 2004 Hi, I used menumaker to install a menu for XFCE4, (mmaker -A xfce4), but for some dumb reason, it deleted my menus for gnome and kde (assumedly the same). How do I get those back? I tried running menudrake and saving, but no luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 5, 2004 Report Share Posted January 5, 2004 there use to be a pkg called drakmenus or something. Don't know if that's the deleted menus or if the pkg is the way it's still implemented but it's something to look into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 mandrake-menu-directory-1.0-20mdk ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted January 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 Couldn't find the former. Installed the latter, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to do. It didn't restore my default mdk menu, that's for sure. It also didn't seem to add any commands or executable files in my path, either. What do you know? Sorry I'm so blooming dumb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 not dumb...just having fun! do rpm -qa | grep mandrake then for all that pertain to menus do (as expample) rpm -ql mandrake-menu-directory this will list the files that are in the rpm, or should. Another thing to try is the rpm command that list all missing rpm files....but i don't remmeber it or see it in rpm --help or man rpm. Maybe someone knows. I only used it once about 2 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 Just as an off chance, have you tried all of the suggestions in TR-02 in our FAQ's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 How about update-menus from the command line as regular user? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted January 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 Just as an off chance, have you tried all of the suggestions in TR-02 in our FAQ's? Shamefully, I only read the first few lines the first time, thought it was only for KDE... :unsure: That did it though; update-menus -v fixed all my menus actually! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 wow....cool! I didn't think that would work for deleted menus so I didn't mention it. Sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted January 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 [grumble] Well, I thought it did... All my menus went back on restart, including my XFCE one. Did I miss something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 Run the update-menus -v and then run menudrake and save it. Try that and see if it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted January 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2004 That seemed to work for my gnome menu, but not for kde. update-menus gave the thumbs up on kde's menu creation, but when i restarted and tried starting kicker, the menu was empty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted January 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Another problem: Using gnome-panel has worked, but then I added a program in menudrake and saved it. Now the menu's gone again... what the deuce? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Menudrake is a bit tricky. It's been buggy for as long as I can remember. If I remember correctly, though, you can add a program to the menu (KDE at least, not sure about Gnome) in the ~/.kde/share/applnk or applnk-mdk directories. I have never tried this, but that IS where your user menus are stored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Maybe someone else knows better or more and I'de love to here what anyone has to say about this. But after reloading because of my last menu problem ( I know I didn't have to but wanted a fresh base to playwith)I decided to try updating only one group at a time. Skipping anything KDE untill last. Well I ran urpmi on the XFree86 pacages and they hosed the menues. Got them back with the update thing. Since I didn't update KDE yet maybe its just the XFree stuff doing it. If anyone has a better idea please tell me. Now that XFree86 is updated I'll try hosing the menus by updating KDE. Maybe they both do it. Hopefully its just related to the XFree stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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