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floke

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Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 266

[SOLVED] Gnome panel goes bonkers (no apps listed)!

Don't know how this happened, but I now have no apps listed under 'Applications' in 2.20.
I can start them from the CLI or from customised launchers - but there's nothing in the menu!
Does anyone know a command to repopulate menu lists?

Many thanks

Last edited by floke (2007-10-08 19:36:53)

Matt3o

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From: Firenze, Italy

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 177

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome panel goes bonkers (no apps listed)!

do you have alacarte installed? (you find it under System > Preferences > Main menu)
if so try to uncheck and re-check the menus entries (and restart gdm). It worked for me once.

floke

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Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 266

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome panel goes bonkers (no apps listed)!

Alacante just shows that everything is empty, and won't let me (un)check any boxes!

aodhon

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From: Dublin

Registered: 2007-06-20

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome panel goes bonkers (no apps listed)!

This happened to me when I upgraded last time I just copied /etc/xdg/menus to ~/.config and then just loged back into gnome and they were back.

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome panel goes bonkers (no apps listed)!

Check if you have the file /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh. If not create one containing the following and make it executable.

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export XDG_DATA_HOME=$HOME/.local/share
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config
export XDG_CACHE_HOME=$HOME/.cache

if [ -z $XDG_DATA_DIRS ]; then
    export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/local/share
else
    export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/local/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
fi

if [ -z $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS ]; then
    export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg
else
    export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg:$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
fi
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floke

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Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 266

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome panel goes bonkers (no apps listed)!

Aodhon and Kishd - many thanks.
The first suggestion worked - but thanks for the effort Kishd!

Problem solved.

Cheers.

syscrash2k

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Registered: 2005-05-07

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome panel goes bonkers (no apps listed)!

Check if you have the file /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh. If not create one containing the following and make it executable.

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export XDG_DATA_HOME=$HOME/.local/share
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config
export XDG_CACHE_HOME=$HOME/.cache

if [ -z $XDG_DATA_DIRS ]; then
    export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/local/share
else
    export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/local/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
fi

if [ -z $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS ]; then
    export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg
else
    export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg:$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
fi
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That saved me a lot of time. Thanks!

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome panel goes bonkers (no apps listed)!

Thank you for the advise, kishd. It help fixes my problem with GNOME 2.20 update.

Also, you can get xorg.sh from (re)installing libx11 package.