Guest ado Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 Hello everyone. I have a problem with gnome in mandrake. 1. When instaling my rpm it won't display the program in the main menu of the gnome-panel but after i have loged out and then loged back than my custom menu entries are visible in the panel. But in kde are the custom menu entries automaticly displayed ... there is no need of logout/login. I've searched the whole internet for this solution about refreshing the gnome panel, and some folks said only killall gnome-panel is the only good sugestion. OK then killall it shall be. 2. I put in my spec file for my program a line at the end if [ `pgrep gnome-panel`] then kill `pgrep gnome-panel` fi This killz the gnome panel and then it apears back again but stil no menus. But if i open a new terminal and there type kill `pgrep gnome-panel` it killz the panel but when it apers the menu entries are visible. For the first time in my life i HATE gnome!!! Could someone help me with my problem? thanx, ado Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 I sometimes get this issue with KDE too. In KDE, I've run MenuDrake (System/Configuration/Other) and then clicked the Save button (instead of logging out and back in again). My menu was then updated within KDE. As I don't install/remove applications that much, I've not really delved into it further other than solve it this way. Try the same in Gnome, at least it'll save you from logging out to refresh the menu. Apologies it's only a slight fix, someone else may post additionally with a more permanent fix. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 try; update-menus && killall gnome-panel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ado Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 try;update-menus && killall gnome-panel <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My script has update-menus befora only this time i added you're suggestion and added killall gnome-panel. Stil the same effect. It won't refresh them. the files in /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu the directory files and desktop files are all on right places. bvc: isn't it anoying if u do rpm -ivh my_package.i386.rpm and than at one time u're gnome-panel disapiers and than comes back :) Now i like KDE :) ianw1974: when u do rpm -ivh mz_package ... there is no clicky ... only awk,sed and grep :) thnax anyway, Some more sugestion? thnax, ado Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 sounds a bit weird to me... i always had my new apps shown in the gnome menu after some seconds. you can try the following: within gnome, start menudrake and let it update the menus. maybe that fixes your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doutor.zero Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 I'm having the same problem with KDE, after install any application I have to run update-menus to refresh the menus. I think this is a bug with Mandriva 2005 because in 10.1 the menus are updated soon after I install any rpm. Thanks, doutor.zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 bvc: isn't it anoying if u do rpm -ivh my_package.i386.rpm and than at one time u're gnome-panel disapiers and than comes back :)<{POST_SNAPBACK}> not really because I rarely use the menus :P ...but when I have, I'm like arctic, seems weird because they're usually there for me. I know that if I install a non official mandriva rpm such as a rh or some hack crap, I do not expect it to show up in the menu at all. If I'm on ubuntu and I install a sarge .deb, I don't expect to see it at all in the menu either (although I have the debian menu installed as well....more stuff to tinker with). The new standard menu sys is just that ..."new", it'll be a while, if ever, before pkg maintainers comply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ado Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 (edited) arctic: Well, i think u're appz are located in the gnome menu under internet,office or something. These menus exist allready, thats why they appear automaticly. But in my case i'm trying to create a new section in the top level, like internet,Graphics,Games,... etc. I think there is the problem, because if i slip my app under Applications submenu, there is no problem. But i have my orders NOT to do so, because i get then problems with other distros. KDE has this nice ability that keeps track off the progz and menus that are beeing installed. The freedesktop shuld be taken more siriouse that some standards shud be made, but still i'm only an linux users and a invidual. Look at me go wild. Some more suggestions, i'm open for new ideas. thanx, ado Edited June 15, 2005 by ado Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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