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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Gnome menus all gone!

So, I was fooling around with the menu-editor app from AUR and somehow managed to kill my GNOME Applications menu. I open the menu to show only "Run Application.." and nothing more. Does anyone know of an easy way to recover from this... (ie. restore menu to what it was when I installed GNOME) without having to reinstall every GNOME package?

If not, how do I add menu items without using any sort of editor? I'm not familiar with the menu layout and .desktop files.

cactus

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Registered: 2004-05-25

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Re: Gnome menus all gone!

you should be able to remove the .gnome and .gnome2 directories. You will lose ALL gnome settings though, but if your desktop is unusable..
*shrug*

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Gnome menus all gone!

I moved those to a different directory and yes my settings were gone, but my menus are still empty. Maybe I should just reinstall all the GNOME stuff.

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Gnome menus all gone!

The menus are located in ~/.config/menus, so deleting gnome profiles won't help much. If everything works as it should, you also should have fucked up KDE and XFCE menus with your menu editor program

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Gnome menus all gone!

I solved the problem by deleting ~/.config/menus and reinstalling the packages I wanted items for. Now maybe I can study the files and figure out how to add and remove items without any editor.