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gpetruff

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Registered: 2016-02-06

Posts: 31

GNOME not showing all applications in the main menu

Hi Everyone !
Recently I have changed from KDE to GNOME but for some reason some of my installed applications are not being showed in the main menu.
I can use all the applications in /usr/bin/applications/ normally but for some reason gnome main menu search can't find them.
Is anyone having the same issue ?
Thanks!

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: GNOME not showing all applications in the main menu

I can use all the applications in /usr/bin/applications/ normally but for some reason gnome main menu search can't find them.

I'm guessing that's a typo, but gnome is looking for applications by .desktop files in /usr/share/applications

If a desktop file uses OnlyShowIn or NotShowIn key, it might not be visible on all desktop environments: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ … 01s06.html

If that's not the cause, can you provide the desktop file of some application not visible in gnome?

gpetruff

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Registered: 2016-02-06

Posts: 31

Re: GNOME not showing all applications in the main menu

Hey.
One example of application that is not appearing is Sublime Text.
The content of the .desktop file is here:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Sublime Text
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
Exec=/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text %F
Terminal=false
MimeType=text/plain;
Icon=sublime-text
Categories=TextEditor;Development;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=Window;Document;

[Desktop Action Window]
Name=New Window
Exec=/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text -n
OnlyShowIn=Unity;

[Desktop Action Document]
Name=New File
Exec=/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --command new_file
OnlyShowIn=Unity;

By taking a look at the I have seen that some entries are really messed up in the OnlyShowIn parameter.
Now I do believe that my question has changed, is there a way for me to fix them?
Thanks !