Gnome2 application menu

Russki · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 10:59 am Post subject: Gnome2 application menu

Hi,
after update to the latest (masked) version of gnome2 I've lost all the
default shortcuts in Applications menu. I don't know how to fix it, but I guess that there is a config file where it is all configured. So, could some one post the default config file for the Application menu? It must be somewere in "Start Here" config file. I am not sure though.
Thank you for your help.
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Beppo · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 16

I have exact the same problem. How do you updated the whole Gnome System? I received a error message like:

emerge: all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=gnome-base/ORBit2-2.4.3" (from ebuild / gnome-base/gnome-2.0.2_pre1 merge) have been masked.

Thx
Beppo

Russki · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 11:30 am Post subject:

Beppo · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 16

Thanks now the update works. I post the problem in a gnome forum. When i received an answer i will post it here.

Beppo

Russki · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 11:48 am Post subject:

I just did

Russki · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 12:36 pm Post subject:

Well, I've updated gnome, but it didn't help... My Application menu is still empty
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Beppo · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 16

I have updated, too. Same problem. I have no idee how to fix it. :cry:

Beppo

Lin_Matt · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 2:12 pm Post subject:

Check under your /usr/share/applications/ directory. That's where my 2.0.1 has the default links setup. I'm about to try the update myself and see if I can't track down wtf is going on.....

Russki · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 2:20 pm Post subject:

Lin_Matt · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 2:44 pm Post subject:

hmmm..... I'm in the middle of updating right now...

have you tried logging into gnome and checking your ~/.xsession-errors file and seeing if there's anything helpful there?

Beppo · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 16

I have no error in my xsession-errors. I think thats not the problem. I installed gnome-vfs before i upgraded the whole gnome desktop. After i updated gnome-vfs manual, i have the problem. I think thats the broken package.

Beppo

emmess · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 13

I had the same problem, fixed it with remerging gnome-vfs-2.0.2

DarkE · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2002 Posts: 31

Do you have the file applications.vfolder-info in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders?

dev · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 8:19 pm Post subject:

dol-sen · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 8:55 pm Post subject: gnome-2.0.2pre

I also found that fix on the gnome forum. I had already tried deleting the .gno* stuff in my home folder, so I have to start building my menus over again.

I also have the problem that when I am logged in as my normal user any windows that open do not have any of the window frame stuff, i.e. no title bar , minimize, maximize, close, no move function, no re-size function. Only the application supplied screen, also if I try to edit something I often can't get the cursor, etc.... I am currently logged in as root to post this.

Any ideas as to what may have caused this.

Thanks ... Brian

P.S. At least menu editing in nautilus seems to work.

Manny Calavera · Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 12:43 pm Post subject:

Russki · Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 7:29 pm Post subject:

dol-sen · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 5:45 am Post subject: metacity

Thanks, I ended up deleting all the gnome conf directories in my home folder, then sawfish began working properly again. I am running metacity now, need to set it as default yet. I'm just working spider's beautification if I can relocate his instructions.

Everyone, a word of caution when editing the menus in nautilus. IF you delete the launcher of the same name as the directory inside the directory, it loses the icon setting and menu traversal for that directory and you cannot recreate it, nor can you delete the menu directory. Good news is that renaming works, also creating a new menu directory works when
1) create the new folder
2) right click on the new folder, select edit launcher
3) select the directory option, select the icon, set to the correct name, close
4) begin populating your menu directory.

I don't know if there is documentaion somewhere about correctly creating/editing menus with nautilus, at least I couldn't find anything readily available or had anything more than the obvious. As usual I was probably looking in the wrong places or searching incorrectly to locate one.

Brian

Utoxin · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 7:35 pm Post subject:

Just a note that I had the missing menus problem too, and deleting the vfolder-info fixed it for me. Thanks for the info!
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Spider · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 8:03 pm Post subject:

the problem was with gnome-vfs and old config files that werent necessary anymore and thus contained bad information..

gnome-vfs-2.0.4-r1 fixes this problem for all users by removing that file mentioned above when installed.
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