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beachcoder

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Registered: 2009-10-08

Posts: 130

XDG-Menu on a virgin Arch Linux system with Enlightenment E17?

Hello Folks,

I've just installed a fresh new Arch Linux on my computer and compiled Enlightenment E17 as my desktop environment by myself.
Everything is fine, except that my Applications menu of E17 is empty.

Here, I read that there is a way to copy an existing xdg-menu file from another Desktop environment into Enlightenment.

But I don't have another one - so no way to get this menu file.

Is there any possibility to create it, so that my E17's Application menu is filled?

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

beachcoder

Cdh

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 1,098

Re: XDG-Menu on a virgin Arch Linux system with Enlightenment E17?

I think you want to use menumaker:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10894

It creates a menu for some different windowmanagers/DEs:

  Deskmenu
  BlackBox
  FluxBox
  IceWM
  PekWM
  OpenBox3 | OpenBox
  Xfce | Xfce4
  WMaker | WindowMaker

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lpb331

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From: Oregon

Registered: 2007-12-18

Posts: 44

Re: XDG-Menu on a virgin Arch Linux system with Enlightenment E17?

Installing gnome-menus worked for me.

extofme

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Registered: 2009-10-10

Posts: 174

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Re: XDG-Menu on a virgin Arch Linux system with Enlightenment E17?

all you needed was:

# sudo pacman -S archlinux-xdg-menu
# sudo ln -s arch-applications.menu /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu

and it will Just Work.  if anything you'd only need to reload e17 (Menu -> Enlightenment -> Restart).

C Anthony

edit: oh and you might want to check out the `archlinux-menus` package; it puts links to all the Arch stuff (forums/AUR/etc.) in your menu.

btw, the info above is here: http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php … #Archlinux :though that site is technically deprecated.

Last edited by extofme (2010-12-02 04:05:17)

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