Guest Royster Posted November 22, 2002 Report Share Posted November 22, 2002 I upgraded a Mandrake 7.2 installation to 9.0. When I did so, I chose to uninstall KDE altogether. Afterward, the Gnome menus on the user accounts looked just fine. But, then I logged in as root to reinstall/upgrade the Crossover Plugin. The root account had formerly been a KDE account. When I logged in under Gnome, it took the old KDE menus, which was OK since I almost never run X as root, but after I logged out, the user menus were the dopey root menus converted from KDE and not the nice ones from the Mandrake install. How can I restore the Gnome user menus? I've read the Gnome manual and it dosn't actually tell me how to edit menus or even where they are stored on the system. I'd like to find out what file gave me those nice Mandrake menus and restore it from the original RPM. Any clues for a guy whose wife is angry at him because she can't find her games anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 23, 2002 Report Share Posted November 23, 2002 Try running update-menus [bvc9@localhost bvc9]$ urpmf update-menus menu:/usr/bin/update-menus menu:/usr/share/man/man1/update-menus.1.bz2 and/or look at man update-menus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Royster Posted November 25, 2002 Report Share Posted November 25, 2002 It seems to return immediately and the menus don't get updated. Running with the -V switch complains about another process holding a lock, but ps dosn't reveal the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Royster Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 I did get update-menus -v to correctly run last night, but the user and root menus remained unchanged. I also discovered menudrake which has all of the neat menus I want sitting right there all set up, but I can't get the system to use these menus. The Save menu option didn't install them. Where does Gnome store the menu files for system default and for users? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Royster Posted December 2, 2002 Report Share Posted December 2, 2002 I'm almost ready to reinstall Mdk 9 from scratch. I still can't figure out how to get the menus which are displayed in menudrake under the Mandrake menu in Gnome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 4, 2002 Report Share Posted December 4, 2002 Try this: Right click on the bar where you want the menu, go up to "Add to Panel", then go down to "Gnome Menu" and click on it. A little black foot should appear on the bar and when you click on it you should see the Gnome start menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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