malfist Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I can't get the menu to change when I use the menu editor. Nothing happens. I've tried adding an option for rhythmbox but that wouldn't show, I tried moving things but nothing happened. Next I downloaded the newest thunderbird from mozilla's website and I can't add a menu item for it. How can I do this? I've be right clicking on the menu and selecting edit menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orts Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Why not use thunderbird from your repository? Have you set up your source list yet? If not go to this site EasyUrpmi and follow the instructions on this site. Open your konsole log in as root like this $ su Password: And now you write or just copy/paste (still as root) urpmi.removemedia -a Now you can copy/paste ALL the list that you've got from the EasyUrpmi. (At the end you mayby will have to hit ENTER just once) After all of this you can just in konsole type this: urpmi thunderbird Regarding the menu. If you install from the repos, the new program will show up in the menu almost every time. In those 3 years I've been using Mandriva, I think that I've seen one time that it didn't show up in the menu. If the new package don'e show then try hitting ALT + F2 and type kappfinder, and now you will have a fair chance to find them. If kappfinder can.t find them then try to find them i the menu editor, you can find all programs in /usr/bin I really hope this will help you, if not or do you just have new questions just ask again. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I can't get the menu to change when I use the menu editor. Would this be using Gnome, KDE, Xfce, or what? Anyway, is there a save icon on the toolbar, or file > save? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malfist Posted July 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 (edited) Sorry, I forgot, it's gnome. I didn't use the repos because it only has 1.5.07 and that doesn't have the exclusive options for gmail. Regarding the menu.If you install from the repos, the new program will show up in the menu almost every time. In those 3 years I've been using Mandriva, I think that I've seen one time that it didn't show up in the menu. If the new package don'e show then try hitting ALT + F2 and type kappfinder, and now you will have a fair chance to find them. If kappfinder can.t find them then try to find them i the menu editor, you can find all programs in /usr/bin I really hope this will help you, if not or do you just have new questions just ask again. :D I know several that wont show up, like atop, nmap, gpart, etc (and I can't find deluge). edit: htop does show up. Edited July 17, 2007 by malfist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orts Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Sorry, I forgot, it's gnome. I didn't use the repos because it only has 1.5.07 and that doesn't have the exclusive options for gmail.I know several that wont show up, like atop, nmap, gpart, etc (and I can't find deluge). edit: htop does show up. I think you should recheck your repos, because I have no trouble finding Thunderbird 2. in my repos. By the way, which version af Mandriva are you using? Regarding the menu. My advice in my first post does only reflect on KDE. But have you installed AlaCarte, for editing the GNOME menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malfist Posted July 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 No, I haven't installed alacarte, my version is kinda old, maybe a year old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malfist Posted July 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 (edited) Alacarte worked, it looked exactly like what I was using though ... Edited July 17, 2007 by malfist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orts Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Alacarte worked, it looked exactly like what I was using though ... I think you was using the program "Menu Editor", and thats a KDE program ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Or the old menudrak if his version is _that_ old. Anyway under mandriva command line programs barely have a menu entry. Maybe except those which has a user interface like htop or mc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Policy is for graphical apps to have menu entries. Console apps, not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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