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zeroempathy

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Registered: 2016-02-23

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Lost submenus

I initially installed Plasma 5, and the menus were all neatly organized with categories and sub categories.  For examples, under games there were categories for card games and strategy games.  These submenus have disappeared after installing other desktop enviroments and there are now only top level categories in the menus on all desktop enviroments.  I have a games menu item with several dozen items in it now. 

I'd like the submenus back if possible, but can't seem to figure out what happened or why they disappeared.

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: Lost submenus

Maybe another application messed around with the menu settings files in your home directory.

What is the contents of the "~/.local/share/applications" directory?

zeroempathy

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Registered: 2016-02-23

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Re: Lost submenus

Maybe another application messed around with the menu settings files in your home directory.

What is the contents of the "~/.local/share/applications" directory?

That directory is full of *.desktop files.  If I open up one of the the desktop files it looks as though it still has categories listed in it.

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: Lost submenus

My suggestion would be to remove (or temporarily move) the entire "~/.local/share/applications" directory, then start the desktop environment. This should put the applications menu to the default format.