Gnome Applications Menu faIls to work in Gentoo

carl0ski · 06-10-2005, 07:40 PM

I used Emerge to install Totem over night in Gnome and i got up this morning and Applications menu fails to display anything,

Actions works fine and added a Main Gnome Menu to the bar (but applications still doesnt display anything there either)

Reboot didnt help and update-menus does not exist

any ideas?

I checked /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
and it still contains XML (though i wouldnt know if it is written wrong.

uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-vidalinux1 #1 Wed Dec 15 17:51:35 EST 2004 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

johnson_steve · 06-11-2005, 12:02 PM

just 'cause you emerge it doesn't meen it's in your menu. in kde I have to edit the menu and tell it what command to run. can you do something similar in gnome?

carl0ski · 06-11-2005, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by johnson_steve
just 'cause you emerge it doesn't meen it's in your menu. in kde I have to edit the menu and tell it what command to run. can you do something similar in gnome?

no literaly it fails to show any programs, orignally it was full of programs and now it fails to display.

From what i can tell the file that contains the menu items is still there but won't load.

johnson_steve · 06-11-2005, 07:02 PM

oh sorry

carl0ski · 06-12-2005, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by johnson_steve
oh sorry

don't sweat it you ironed out my mistaken wording
Anyone have any idea to fix this?

on mandrake update-menu fixes it
but i found that is a mandrake only tool.

rbrumby · 07-08-2005, 05:42 AM

Found a post on Gentoo forum. re-emerge gnome-panel. It fixed mine but has done a few funnies to the menu (adds new menus to the panel, etc) but they should be fairly easy to sort out.