a dir has disappeared from Kmenu

[solarian]

Hi!

 

I have Thac's KDE 3.4, Mandriva 10.2

I had two dirs in Kmenu

"crossover office" and "windows applications"

Yesterday I ran Menudrake and put "corssover office" in "windows applications" to save space in Kmenu.

Alas ironically it saved more space than I had wished for ->

those two dirs completely dissapeared from my actual Kmenu,

alas they can be seen in Menudrake as they should be, i.e., one inide another.

So, from Menudrake's point of view everything is as it should have been,

but in the actual menu I have neither of these dirs.

 

thnx

[mikeee]

Try going to console and running 'kmenuedit' and see what it says. I ran into some problems with my menus too recently. My menudrake and kmenuedit seemed to be fighting over which menu config to use. Menus are located in ~/.config/menus

 

Let me know what kmenuedit says

[solarian]

The same - empty of those folders.

But I just created a folder through MCC->System->Edit Menus

And self created an (almost)empty two level submenu with one application at the bottom.

That folder has now appeared.

It appears as if I can edit Menu from MCC, but if I edit it straight through Menudrake, I lose all what I edit.

[aioshin]

that problem always happen to me, i dunno really why, but especially the folder created by the crossover install.. anyway, have you tried the update-menus command? only as user in your konsole... this is what i always do after i add a certain package, because it supposed to appear immediately after package installation but, it wont, so what i always do is just to $update-menus -v

[solarian]

I have tried, didn't work

I ended up in creating a dublicate crossover office and windows applications folders by hand

A bit of a pain, but all works now (created through mcc->menuedit)

[mikeee]

Funny, MCC should just be running menudrake. Maybe because you're running MCC as root while running regular menudrake as user?

 

My solution to my menu updating woes was to open menudrake and select default kde menu as menu to use, then delete ~/.config/menus/applications-mdk.menu and then do 'ln ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu ~/.config/menus/applications.mdk.menu' and just use kmenuedit to edit menus. I prefer kmenuedit anyway.

[solarian]

Yes, I know both times it is Menudrake, but that is what happens.

I also think it's because I run as root, but both times I edit the same (system) menu.

If I edit as user, my changes don't save, but everything edited dissapears;

If I edit as root, everything happens as it should

Both times 'edit' happens, just in one instance it is glitchy

Edited May 19, 2005 by solarian

[ffrr]

Yes, I know both times it is Menudrake, but that is what happens.

I also think it's because I run as root, but both times I edit the same (system) menu.

If I edit as user, my changes don't save, but everything edited dissapears;

If I edit as root, everything happens as it should

Both times 'edit' happens, just in one instance it is glitchy

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I don't know... I only ever edit the menus as myself (never root) and always use menudrake, and still weird things like this happen all the time. It's a very flaky/buggy application (either the menu system itself or menudrake - not sure which)