[SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

leonidas · 2014-11-09 19:42:20

After last update the menu entries in LXDE menu disappeared. There are only two entries, Logout and Run
Is there any way to restore the menu entries?

Last edited by leonidas (2014-11-17 18:16:14)

2ManyDogs · 2014-11-09 19:50:48

Do you still have .desktop files in the locations where LXDE looks for them when it builds the menu (primarily /usr/share/applications)?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LX … nu_editing

leonidas · 2014-11-09 19:53:14

Yes there are 227 .desktop files in /usr/share/applications

nbvcxz · 2014-11-10 09:28:38

1. broken panel config
please show (cat) us your panel configuration eg:

cat ~/.config/lxpanel/default/panels/panel

or

cat ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/panel

especially part Plugin type=menu
2. hidden all entities in menu
backup and remove local menu application

mv ~/.local/share/applications  ~/.local/share/applications.bak

3. missing a part of menu
install again lxmenu-data, menu-cache and libfm-extra

sudo pacman -S libfm-extra libfm-extra libfm-extra

4. launch panel from termian
if nothing helps start terminal stop lxpanel and start it again from terminal to see the output

lxpanelctl exit
lxpanel

Last edited by nbvcxz (2014-11-10 10:20:36)

leonidas · 2014-11-10 14:05:02

Steps 2,3,4 didn't fix the problem.
The contents of ~/.config/lxpanel/default/panels/panel:

# lxpanel <profile> config file. Manually editing is not recommended.
# Use preference dialog in lxpanel to adjust config when you can.

Global {
  edge=bottom
  allign=left
  margin=0
  widthtype=percent
  width=100
  height=26
  transparent=0
  tintcolor=#ffffff
  alpha=135
  setdocktype=1
  setpartialstrut=1
  usefontcolor=1
  fontcolor=#884949
  usefontsize=0
  fontsize=10
  background=0
  backgroundfile=/usr/share/lxpanel/images/background.png
}
Plugin {
  type=menu
  Config {
    system {
    }
    separator {
    }
    item {
      command=run
    }
    separator {
    }
    item {
      command=logout
      image=gnome-logout
    }
    image=/usr/share/icons/arch_icon.svg
  }
}
Plugin {
  type=launchbar
  Config {
  }
}
Plugin {
  type=wincmd
  Config {
    Button1=iconify
    Button2=shade
  }
}
Plugin {
  type=space
  Config {
    Size=4
  }
}
Plugin {
  type=taskbar
  Config {
    tooltips=1
    IconsOnly=0
    AcceptSkipPager=1
    ShowIconified=1
    ShowMapped=1
    ShowAllDesks=0
    UseMouseWheel=1
    UseUrgencyHint=1
    FlatButton=0
    MaxTaskWidth=115
    spacing=3
    SameMonitorOnly=0
  }
  expand=1
}
Plugin {
  type=volumealsa
  Config {
  }
}
Plugin {
  type=pager
  Config {
  }
}
Plugin {
  type=tray
  Config {
  }
}
Plugin {
  type=dclock
  Config {
    ClockFmt=%R
    TooltipFmt=%A %x
    BoldFont=0
    IconOnly=0
    CenterText=0
  }
}
Plugin {
  type=netstat
  Config {
  }
}
Plugin {
  type=batt
  Config {
    BackgroundColor=black
    ChargingColor1=#28f200
    ChargingColor2=#22cc00
    DischargingColor1=#ffee00
    DischargingColor2=#d9ca00
    HideIfNoBattery=0
    AlarmCommand=xmessage Battery low
    AlarmTime=5
    BorderWidth=1
    Size=16
    ShowExtendedInformation=0
  }
}

nbvcxz · 2014-11-11 10:33:35

1. Pls try to use menulibre or alacarte-lxde. They are menu editors and maybye they do the thing. Although they require gnome-menus it shouldn't be obligatory in the future to work with LXDE.
2. Look at /etc/xdg/menus and /usr/share/desktop-directories. You can find any clue there.
3. Another stupid thing - have you tried to remove .cache contents?

Last edited by nbvcxz (2014-11-11 10:57:25)

leonidas · 2014-11-12 09:20:34

1.With menulibre i can only edit the menu entries
2. In /etc/xdg/menus I see only files as cinnamon-applications.menu gnome-applications.menu lxde-applications.menu
cinnamon-applications-merged kde-applications.menu and in /usr/share/desktop-directories only .directory files
3.I removed the ~/.cache/menus contents but it didn't help

Another notable thing is that when I ask to open a file using "Open with" option there is nothing in "Installed Applications"

leonidas · 2014-11-17 18:14:49

Ok, the problem was with menu-cache 0.7.0-1.
I installed menu-cache-git and the problem was solved.

JimH44 · 2015-01-27 19:08:25

nbvcxz wrote:

1. broken panel config
please show (cat) us your panel configuration eg:
cat ~/.config/lxpanel/default/panels/panel
or
cat ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/panel
especially part Plugin type=menu
With the same problem, my cat showed:
Plugin {
    type = menu
    Config {
        image=/usr/share/lxde/images/lxde-icon.png
        system {
        }
        separator {
        }
        item {
            command=run
        }
        separator {
        }
        item {
            image=gnome-logout
            command=logout
        }
    }
}
2. hidden all entities in menu
backup and remove local menu application
mv ~/.local/share/applications  ~/.local/share/applications.bak
I did that, and my applications.bak directory contains lots of files with extension of .desktop
3. missing a part of menu
install again lxmenu-data, menu-cache and libfm-extra
sudo pacman -S libfm-extra libfm-extra libfm-extra
Did you mean to put libfm-extra three times?
Did you mean
sudo pacman -S lxmenu-data menu-cache libfm-extra
?
I tried that, but didn't have any pacman. I used apt-get to get it, and found myself playing pacman :-)
I tried
sudo apt-get install lxmenu-data menu-cache libfm-extra
and got the result:
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package menu-cache
E: Unable to locate package libfm-extra
4. launch panel from termian
if nothing helps start terminal stop lxpanel and start it again from terminal to see the output
lxpanelctl exit
lxpanel

When I run lxpanel (with the bare command, or as someone else suggested, with

lxpanel -p LXDE

) I get the error message

Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1"

The panel starts OK, but still has only Run and Logout entries in the START menu.

I am running Ubuntu 13.04, accessing the server through tightvnc.

The file

~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/panel

begins with

# lxpanel <profile> config file. Manually editing is not recommended.
# Use preference dialog in lxpanel to adjust config when you can.

so I don't want to just add entries the function.
The preference dialog didn't seem to have a way for me to import other START menu entries.

Any help appreciated :-)
Jim

Arch Linux

#1 2014-11-09 19:42:20

[SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

#2 2014-11-09 19:50:48

Re: [SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

#3 2014-11-09 19:53:14

Re: [SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

#4 2014-11-10 09:28:38

Re: [SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

#5 2014-11-10 14:05:02

Re: [SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

#6 2014-11-11 10:33:35

Re: [SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

#7 2014-11-12 09:20:34

Re: [SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

#8 2014-11-17 18:14:49

Re: [SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

#9 2015-01-27 19:08:25

Re: [SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

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