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halcor

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Registered: 2008-05-15

Posts: 71

Lxde menu trouble

When I turn off computer and reboot. The menu of lxde don't work. I click but nothing happen. If I enter in a panel configuration, and quit the menu and reput, the menu works, but when i reboot, it doesn't work fine.

Some idea?

decaturguy

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-28

Posts: 117

Re: Lxde menu trouble

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61801

I think you need to install menu-cache and lxmenu-data it should be available in community repo by now, please read that thread for info.

alex_anthony

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-09-25

Posts: 344

Re: Lxde menu trouble

I had this. There seems to be 2 config file: 1 that it uses at startup, 1 that it uses what you start it manually
To solve this, I copied the one that did have the menu in (should be quite obvious, it goes through each applet in order) from ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/something (not at my computer atm) into the place of the other, ~/.config/lxpanel/something/something
Or it might have been the other way around but as I said it is quite easily recognisable

Mr_Bumpy

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Registered: 2008-10-20

Posts: 6

Re: Lxde menu trouble

Having the same problem here.  I couldn't figure out Alex's solution, but I do have one of my own.  I created a script that restarts the lxpanel and I load it at boot.  Yes, it's hackish, but it works.  In my example, the script is located in the home directory, but you can put it anywhere you like (just change the reference in the .desktop file).  Edit the script (type 'nano ~/restartlxpanel') and add the following:

#!/bin/bash
killall lxpanel
lxpanel

Press Ctrl-X to exit and y to save the file.  Then, make it executable (type 'chmod 755 ~/restartlxpanel').

Next, create the following desktop file: ~/.config/autostart/restartlxpanel.desktop (the autostart directory may need to be created first) and add the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Restart LX Panel
Exec=~/restartlxpanel
Icon=/usr/share/icons/nuoveXT2/48x48/actions/stock_file-properites.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application

Now when you log off and back on, the panel should refresh itself automatically.

oni5115

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Registered: 2009-01-10

Posts: 38

Re: Lxde menu trouble

I've been having some intermittent issues with the lxpanel menu as well.  When it works it's great.   Under Ubuntu it used to flicker and act weird with xcompmgr, but it always worked.

When it does act weird, I've ctrl+alt+backspace and it usually works fine when I log back in.  It only happens intermittently though, it isn't predictable at every reboot or anything.  I'm using GDM, not sure if that make a difference or not.

fulloffur

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Registered: 2007-09-24

Posts: 20

Re: Lxde menu trouble

I have the same trouble with the menu too. Sometimes nothing happens with I click it when I boot up. When I log out and log in, the menu works again. Seems to be random.

I start X straight from the inittab runlevel 5.

Don't know how to troubleshoot.

twin

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From: Greece

Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 47

Re: Lxde menu trouble

Can confirm same problem.

Don't know if it's an Arch specific issue though.

Hope some LXDE developer sees this.:D

Last edited by twin (2009-02-16 20:36:44)

na12

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From: /home/serbia

Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 752

Re: Lxde menu trouble

My LXDE menu works nice.

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blazercist

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Registered: 2009-01-18

Posts: 20

Re: Lxde menu trouble

Its odd, I have the same problem on my Laptop and I solved it using the script idea similar to what Mr_Bumpy suggested, however I have an almost identical setup on my Desktop and have not experienced the problem.  This therefore leads me to believe that this is not an Arch specific problem and may be related to some hardware differences that lxpanel doesn't agree with on certain systems.

MY version of the script looks like this:

nano lxscript

#!/bin/bash
sleep 5
lxpanel


CTRL+X
Y

Then I just

sudo chmod +x lxscript
sudo mv lxscript /usr/bin/

and use lxscript instead of lxpanel in my autostart script.

Last edited by blazercist (2009-02-16 21:24:08)

twin

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From: Greece

Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 47

Re: Lxde menu trouble

@blazercist

Your script seems to work great! Thanks a lot!

halcor

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Registered: 2008-05-15

Posts: 71

Re: Lxde menu trouble

Today I don't have any trouble. If I get, I will use your script. Thanks to share with us.