Gnome 2.12.1 menu editor fails to launch

Pakman117 · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 7 Location: VA

Hi, I just installed gnome-light with emerge. When I try to use the menu editor, however, a window pops up in the launch bar at the bottom saying "Starting Menu Editor", which then disappears and nothing happens. Is there a certain gnome package that needs to be installed that gnome-light failed to install? I tried installing gnome-menus, but this didn't fix the problem. Perhaps I need to start gnome as root?

Thanks for your help.
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maxima · Apprentice Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 150

try running it from terminal

Pakman117 · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 7 Location: VA

This is the error:

sternklang · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:37 am Post subject:

Actually, there's a better menu editor for Gnome available. It's called alacarte. The gnome-simple-editor is not part of Gnome 2.14, and I think the plan is for alacarte to eventually replace it, though not in time for 2.14.

You can get the ebuild from this bug. It's not in Portage yet so if you want to try it out you'll have to do so in an overlay. If you do choose to try it but don't know about overlays, let me know and I'll explain how to set one up.

Pakman117 · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 7 Location: VA

I don't know about overlays. Could you please explain? Thanks.
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sternklang · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:22 am Post subject:

Sure. First create a directory called /usr/local/portage which will be the base for any ebuilds outside of portage. Then, to let portage know we have an overlay, edit /etc/make.conf and add the line:

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Pakman117 · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 7 Location: VA

[quote=Finally emerge alacarte, and you should be done.[/quote]

Did everything you said to do, but when I do emerge alacarte, it says "All ebuilds that could satisfy "alacarte" have been masked." I consulted the gentoo handbook and it said that I should wait until this package is available since it's masked by the ~x86 keyword. Am I out of luck?

Maxima, I emerged pygtk and the command got a little further. This time it says "ImportError: No module named cairo". I emerged cairo, but this did not solve the problem. I rebooted X, but still, no go...

Any more thoughts? Thanks for all the help so far.
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Pakman117 · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 7 Location: VA

Maxima: nevermind, I fixed the error. It needed pycairo, haha. I am still interested about getting alacarte to work, though.
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sternklang · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:00 am Post subject:

Pakman117 · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 7 Location: VA

The same error came up for another package, so I did the same thing. After that, I did emerge alacarte and that worked. Thanks!
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MorningGlory · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:49 am Post subject:

Hey thats weird. You have alacarte in portage and I do not?

Synced my Portage Tree this afternoon so thats not out of date.
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=alacarte also tells me there is no such thing in portage, as does "emerge -s alacarte". Maybe the sync-server i'm using, a Dutch one since I live in the Netherlands, is a lil out of date?
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sternklang · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:57 am Post subject:

MorningGlory, if you check out my first comment on this thread, there's a link to a bug in Gentoo bugzilla with the ebuild for alacarte. It's not in portage yet.

MorningGlory · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:52 am Post subject:

monkey89 · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 596

Er, pakman added it to his own overlay. Might want to read the posts a bit more carefully.

MorningGlory · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:32 am Post subject:

mccubbin · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 32

I tried the overlay setup for alacarte exactly as recommended and I get an error that alacarte is not in portage. Is there some other step I don't know about?

I issue this command

sternklang · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:00 am Post subject:

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mccubbin · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 32

Got it. I hadn't put that line in /etc/make.conf. Thanks. I had to emerge a couple of the other python packages, but it is emerging as I type this. Now I hope it works :-)

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mccubbin · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 32

It's working now. Thanks again.
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XrateR · Apprentice Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 164 Location: Sweden

Hello,
I have also emerge alacarte. But after I emerged it, I needed to reemerge some of my gnome things.
It did well to I come to gnome it self. So now I can't come any longer. Nothing happens when I reemerge gnome.

sternklang · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:16 pm Post subject:

XrateR · Apprentice Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 164 Location: Sweden

but it emerge 15 thing !
Is that needed? I mean, I don't know what it do and I don't like to
do so big updates then I don't know what it's do?

sternklang · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject:

Well, I don't know what packages it wants to emerge on your system, so I can't really tell you what they do without that information. :wink:

Looking at the alacarte ebuild, it requires python 2.4 plus 3 other packages. It's possible those packages have dependencies that would pull in a number of other python packages. Usually these packages are pretty small and don't take much time to emerge. So you could try it out, and if you don't like the results: