gnome-shell activities: No applications in menu and sidebar

franzf · Advocate Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 4565

When I use gdm everything is fine. Meta-key opens activities view, I see my favorites in the sidebar, the menu (bottom-most button in the sidebar) contains every app I have installed.
Since gdm takes ages to start for no reason (extensive disk I/O for about 30 seconds...) I want to use startx/autologin or whatever. This will result in an empty activities view: sidebar does not contain any of my previously stored favorites, applications menu is empty. Using gdm again everything is fine, so settings are not lost but seem to be ignored when using startx.
What's going wrong here?
My .xinitrc contains only "exec gnome-session"

letrec_ · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 2

I have the same issue.

$ ls /etc/xdg/menus/
applications-merged gnome-applications.menu gnomecc.menu

should I have the file applications.menu ?