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Raisuli

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Registered: 2007-09-28

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[SOLVED]Gnome desktop and KDE menu suddenly gone

I run Arch on a second machine with both KDEmod and Gnome installed. When logging in today Gnome desktop was gone (wallpaper, icons, etc), but the panels were still there. All applications seem to function normally. Switching to Kdemod brought the following result: Desktop and icons are still visible, panels too, just all menu entries and the Konqueror and home icon in the panel are gone. I can still call up applications from the cli.

The "kmenuedit" command gives me the following error: "... could not read from /home/raisuli/menu/applications-kmeduedit.menu" which is not surprising because the file doesn't exist (anymore?).

Should I just reinstall Gnome and KDEmod or could there be another way?

Last edited by Raisuli (2008-05-05 20:44:18)

kumico

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome desktop and KDE menu suddenly gone

have you done anything in $HOME lately?
there might be permission issues, or you deleted the config files or something else

Raisuli

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome desktop and KDE menu suddenly gone

Thanks for your reply. And no, not that I'm aware of.

kumico

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome desktop and KDE menu suddenly gone

hmm, i'm not sure what could have happened
maybe you can get them back if you re-install gnome-menus, archlinux-menus ,, i don't think kde comes with any as a pkg.
you might also be missing /usr/share/applications, most of the entries also come from desktop files in that directory

Raisuli

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome desktop and KDE menu suddenly gone

Thank you, kumico! Reinstalling the packages worked like a charm and also fixed the kde issue. Still have no idea though what happened and why.

pancon

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome desktop and KDE menu suddenly gone

I must thank you too Kumico, the applications menu wouldn't open in GNOME after I did an -Rcn to remove KDE4-svn and everything related to it, but all I needed to do to get it back was what you suggested, re-install gnome-menus.

So thanks!

kumico

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome desktop and KDE menu suddenly gone

yw+yw just glad i could help;)