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yotama9

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Registered: 2010-10-06

Posts: 70

missing application in e17

Hi guys.

I just install arch on my machine using e17 as WM. I have followed arch wiki for both installing X and installing e17. Everything worked fine expect for my application menu which is empty. I don't even have a shell. How can I fix this? I installed chromium for example and it doesn't appear.

Also, how can I launch SLiM automatically on startup? (You can ignore this question if you want. I just hadn't had the time to read this part yet)/

Thanks.

Yotam

FarmerF

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2009-06-08

Posts: 76

Re: missing application in e17

Do you have a menu file?
"locate applications.menu"

if so then you can use that
"cp /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu ~/.config/menus/applications.menu"
Edit the first part to fit what you have.

Else you can generate a xdg menu (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XdgMenu) and use that. You may have to play around with it a bit to get it right, not sure where I got my menu's But something like this might work:
"xdg_menu --fullmenu"

Last edited by FarmerF (2010-11-07 10:58:35)

yotama9

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Registered: 2010-10-06

Posts: 70

Re: missing application in e17

Sorry, none of those didn't work.

Do I need another DE install (such as gnome or xfce)?

lpb331

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From: Oregon

Registered: 2007-12-18

Posts: 44

Re: missing application in e17

Installing gnome-menus should generate the application menu. As for SLiM, the Arch wiki page for SLiM explains that.

yotama9

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Registered: 2010-10-06

Posts: 70

Re: missing application in e17

Thanks, that worked