Some applications do not appear in GNOME menu?

thayer · 2007-06-24 19:06:52

I just did a fresh install of Arch with GNOME the other day, and in the process of installing my usual array of applications I've noticed that the GNOME menu is not showing a number of them, including K9copy, tuxracer, and neverball. Of course, I made sure to log out/in after the installation, just to make sure the session was updated.

I'm wondering if this is a bug or if these packages simply don't contain the necessary information to be placed automatically in the menu structure. I can run any of these from a console or with Alt+F2, but I'd prefer to have a menu entry.

Echo · 2007-06-24 19:40:08

There's a gnome menu editor, alacarte. I don't know how effective it is or if there's others. I'm not a gnome user. When I used to use gnome this would happen on occasion. Never tried to figure out why.

tardo · 2007-06-24 19:50:48

add fam to your daemon's list in /etc/rc.conf. might be why it doesn't pick it up.

thayer · 2007-06-24 23:26:34

Thanks for the tips, unfortunately fam was already running so that's not the cause. I realize I could use alacarte to manually create entries, but I'd rather know why the entries aren't appearing in the first place. Like I said, it's strange because most apps do automatically appear, and I can reproduce this, yet others (specifically those I listed above) do not create entries.

Can any other GNOME users confirm this behaviour with any of the applications I list above?

Thanks!

roadboy · 2007-06-25 20:32:22

I have the same problem too. After yesterday, no application have .desktop file.

tardo · 2007-06-25 20:46:33

Actually, those specific applications don't come with .desktop files, which is your problem (this will happen to everyone too). Only solution is to create one yourself, or google for one. If you find them, ask the maintainers to include them in the pkg.

Kenetixx · 2007-06-25 21:13:15

Ha dthe same problem with a few Apps, but found after i logged out then in they appeared.

roadboy · 2007-06-25 21:26:19

tardo wrote:

Actually, those specific applications don't come with .desktop files, which is your problem (this will happen to everyone too). Only solution is to create one yourself, or google for one. If you find them, ask the maintainers to include them in the pkg.

I don't agree with you. 2 days ago i had to reinstall my system because of a pacman problem. Before this, some applications i use used to have .desktop files. After reinstallation they don't. And also they were not upgraded. Maybe the problem is mirrors, that's not a big problem

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Some applications do not appear in GNOME menu?

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