The problem was that in /home/myuser/.cache the folder 'menus' was owned by root. I changed that to my username and everything worked fine.
Cheers
]]>Now I only need to know where to set the right permissions:-)
]]>All I can say is that it works out of the box on my laptop.
]]>I already tried some stuff like adding 'export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=lxde-', 'export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce-' or 'export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce-applications.menu' to .xinitrc.
Or link lxde-applications.menu to applications.menu. Nothing worked.
I also have gnome-menus2 and lxmenu-data installed.
]]>I am on Openbox too and it works for me on PcmanFM. gnome-menus & xfce4-panel are installed.
On Thunar, I don't see this feature, but I am not sure you meant it worked on it.
As AFAIK Openbox built-in menu doesn't use the /usr/share/applications desktop structure, do you have any other application which uses it (lxpanel, menu-xdg...) to see whether it is OK or not...
]]>Pcmanfm has a bookmark in the sidepane between trash and drives which reads 'Applications'. When you click on it pcmanfm is supposed to show installed applications. They can be launched from there too.
In the pcmanfm arch wiki it sais to install gnome-menus to achieve this. So I assume pcmanfm uses menu files to display and group applications.
I don't have a Desktop environment, only openbox as window manager and use the openbox menu to launch apps. But also xfce4-application-launcher.
I'd just like to enable pmanfm's feature to launch applications from within it.
Thanks
]]>To launch by a menu, it depends of other stuff. You say you switched from Thunar to PcmanFM, but have you a complete Desktop Manager, as XFCE? How did you manage your menu before this switch?
]]>I'd like to switch from Thunar to Pcmanfm but am not able to get Pcmanfm to show applications.
I installed gnome-menus - still nothing happens. When I click on applications Pcmanfm seems to search (mousepointer is a clock) but cannot find anything.
Do I have to do something with gnome-menus to get it working or copy some file(s)?
Thanks in advance
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