Ronin Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Ok what gives? All I did was change my printer from an old inkjet one to the sassy new laser jet one, install the real honest to goodness linux drivers for it from the manufacture (which added a new section to the menu) and now the whole damn menu is gone. I try menudrake and it doesn't bring it back, even tried it as root. I try update-menus -v and it works but all I have is the default menu applications that were installed when I first installed 9.2. No Americas Army, no Gaim, no cross over office etc. I've done the update a long time ago that supposedly fixed this problem. But apparently not in my case. Anyone have any ideas what to do here to get all the applications back in the menu? On the up side, damn the new Samsung laser printer is sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 I think you should use menudrake as root to edit the system menu (not the root menu) so that everytime you lose the menu and have to redo the update-menus -v, it will be restored according the system menu, so you don't lose anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted January 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 I think you should use menudrake as root to edit the system menu (not the root menu) so that everytime you lose the menu and have to redo the update-menus -v, it will be restored according the system menu, so you don't lose anything. Tried that already DragonMage, unless I'm doing it wrong (always a possiblilty) It rebuilds them fine but still only the default applications. I go to add something like Gaim to the Menu and I loose it all, I do the update and it only brings the defaults back and then I'm in that lovely little loop again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 Funny, it always work for me.. in fact.. it works so well that sometimes I install a package, the menu is not updated yet until I do update-menus -v as user. After that, then it will show up in user menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted January 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 Funny, it always work for me.. in fact.. it works so well that sometimes I install a package, the menu is not updated yet until I do update-menus -v as user. After that, then it will show up in user menu. That makes me think I'm doing it wrong then. heh Pretend I'm a user and explain to me please what you did to get it working. Maybe I'm missing a step that you're doing? Yes I'm grasping at straws here I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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