empty applications menu (Gnome 2.26)

einbisschen

After setting up a new system with Gnome 2.26 I got an empty application menu (no entries).
But there are installed applications like gnome-terminal.

I tried editing the menu with the menu-editor, but in there, there is no application menu I could edit!

At the moment I have to create panel-starters for each application I want, but this is not a good solution isn't it?

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Try creating a test user account and login Gnome.

Same result Y/N ?

einbisschen · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject:

thanks for answering

yes I am getting the same result with the new user

I just discovered an error message when starting Gnome
the gnome-settings-daemon fails to startup

could this be connected to this?

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Do you have this symlink?

einbisschen · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:33 pm Post subject:

the file

einbisschen · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:38 pm Post subject:

oh mistake:
applications.menu does not exist, while gnome-applications.menu does!
I will create the link

einbisschen · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:40 pm Post subject:

thank you very much!
this fixed it!

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Cool.

mule.ear · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2011 Posts: 1

Thanks for the help.

I had gnome-applications.menu but no applications.menu in /etc/xdg/menus.
As soon as I created the link applications.menu that pointed to the gnome file it worked right away! While X was running.

Thank you.