'Games' group missing in LXDE menu

strider2003

Whenever I install a new application, it is shown in the lxpanel menu, but the games are not. Also, I cannot execute games from the "run" option of this menu.

The user is in the games group and the executables are in the PATH, so I don't know where's the problem. Any ideas?

I have tried copying .desktop files from /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications, with no results.

This problem is also reported in this post in "Gamers & Players", but I think it belongs here, since it has almost nothing to do with games, but with LXDE.

ribx · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:41 am Post subject: its there for me

Hi,

I have the Games submenu in the lxpanel menu.

what happens when you "run" a game from a console, I guess that works, right?

did you try to run lxpanel from a console, to see any warnings/errors?

regards
ribx
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strider2003 · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:44 am Post subject:

Yes, ribx, I can run the games from the console.

I haven't tried running lxpanel from a console, but I will try asap (I don't have the computer with me) and see what happens.

strider2003 · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:06 pm Post subject:

After logging in a lxde session, I have tried the following steps, with surprising and annoying results:

I use the "Run" option in the lxpanel menu.
I type "ltris" (one of the games that I have installed) and I get an error message (not found).

Then, from lxterminal, I kill lxpanel, and then run it from the terminal. lxpanel runs silently, no messages are shown. Then I repeat the steps above, and now the "Run" dialog suggests the complete name of the game and, when I press enter, the game is started as expected.

So, in summary:

From lxpanel, I cannot run games, and the "games" group is not shown in the menu.
If I start lxpanel from a terminal, I can run games, but the "games" group is still not shown.

BillWho · Veteran Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 1587 Location: US

strider2003,

If you have an entry in /usr/share/applications for the app then try

strider2003 · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:18 pm Post subject:

BillWho, I have them.

I did as you suggest, but I get no results.

I run this command

BillWho · Veteran Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 1587 Location: US

strider2003,

Strange to hear that it didn't work - it worked for me with VirtualBox. For some reason It wasn't showing, but executing xdg-desktop-menu install /usr/share/applications/virtualbox.desktop fixed it.

Did you try the --novendor option :?:

Did you check the categories entry :?:

That's the entry that appears to determine where the entry will reside.

destroyedlolo · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 1:12 pm Post subject:

Hello,

I installed a new machine and I'm facing again this issue (with AlienArena this time).

Looks like an LXPannel bug ...

Bye

Laurent

destroyedlolo · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:39 pm Post subject:

Hum, really strange.
I did some installation for something that don't have anything to do with games ... and "Games" category appeared

Exactly what happened last time.

Hum ...