xfce4-popup-menu (4.4.0) doesn't show Games menu.

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DeathCarrot · Post by **DeathCarrot** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:34 pm

I recall I had this problem with my laptop, but then the menu magically appeared at some point. I'm in the games group, I can launch the games themselves fine, and the relevant .desktop files are present in /usr/share/applications.

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deathcarrot@jkbox ~ $ groups
wheel audio games users portage deathcarrot

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deathcarrot@jkbox ~ $ emerge xfce4 

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies  ..... ........ done!
[ebuild   R   ] xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.0  USE="alsa oss -cups -minimal" 0 kB 

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]

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deathcarrot@jkbox ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2-r12 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6600  @ 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:10 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r3
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.virginmedia.com/sites/gentoo ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ "
LINGUAS="en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-* --prune-empty-dirs"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/portage/local/overlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="7zip X a52 aac aalib alsa amd64 amr arj bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bl blender-game bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cli console cpudetection cracklib crypt dbus dga divx doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdread encode exif fam ffmpeg filepicker firefox flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gif glitz gmedia gpm gtk guile hal iconv imlib isdnlog jack java jbig jpeg jpeg2k ldap lha libcaca libg++ libnotify libsamplerate loop-playback lua mad midi mikmod mod mozbranding moznopango mp3 mpeg msn multiuser musepack nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal openexr opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl plugins png portaudio ppds pppd python qt3 quicktime rar readline realmedia reflection rtc ruby samba sdl session slang smp sndfile sound spell spl ssl startup-notification svg systray tcl tcpd tetex tga theora threads tiff timidity tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode use vidcap vim-pager vorbis wma wmf wmp x264 xanim xcomposite xforms xinerama xml xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nvidia nv"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Spent · Post by **Spent** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:59 pm

I've found that sometimes I have to logout then back in for some items to appear in the menu. Have you tried that?

DeathCarrot · Post by **DeathCarrot** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:17 pm

Yup, several times, rebooted quite a few times since emerging my first game as well.

Spent · Post by **Spent** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:58 pm

Put copies of the .desktop files into ~/.local/share/applications, see if that does anything.

DeathCarrot · Post by **DeathCarrot** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:02 pm

Doesn't seem to make a difference

Spent · Post by **Spent** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:31 pm

There may be a syntax error in the .desktop file. Is the problem with one game, or all games? And, did you make the .desktop file yourself?

You could edit an existing .desktop file that you know works.

DeathCarrot · Post by **DeathCarrot** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:26 pm

All of the games (kobodl, wormux, xmoto and quake3 with a few mods). The .desktop files were installed by the ebuilds, changing the category from Game to something else doesn't make them show up, and changing the permissions on the executable doesn't seem to help either

DeathCarrot · Post by **DeathCarrot** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:44 pm

Still haven't found a solution, noone else has had this problem even though I've had it with both my gentoo boxes?