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farkus888

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Registered: 2007-10-31

Posts: 31

[SOLVED]system menu not auto updating, xfce, 64bit

I have a fresh x86-64 install of arch running xfce4. In the past on my 32bit Arch machines the system menu always updated itself when I added packages with pacman. My current install seems to update the system menu randomly. I added firefox and got no system menu entry, then added pidgin and it was there immediately but still no firefox. Is there a setting I need to change to get the system menu to update all of the time?

Also I looked for a way to change the menu manually but can not find it, the xfce menu editor seems to call the system menu from a separate file and I am not sure what that file is called to be able to find and update it.

edit:see next post for my solution
edit again: mods may want to move this out of "arch64 and other architectures" because it does not seem to be 64bit specific

Last edited by farkus888 (2008-02-07 01:05:03)

farkus888

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Registered: 2007-10-31

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED]system menu not auto updating, xfce, 64bit

I managed to figure this out on my own. I added the entry

<LegacyDir>/usr/share/applications</LegacyDir>

to the legacy dirs section of my

/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu

file. after rebooting all of the entries that had not added themselves were in the menu. I am sure there was a better way to force it to rescan than rebooting but that did work.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: [SOLVED]system menu not auto updating, xfce, 64bit

Does xfce ignore this?

update-desktop-database -q

From /var/abs/extra/network/firefox/firefox.install

farkus888

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Registered: 2007-10-31

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Re: [SOLVED]system menu not auto updating, xfce, 64bit

I am not really sure what you are referring to there. if it makes any difference fam was not one of the loaded daemons the first time I installed firefox. since then I have added fam to start automatically. when I realized fam wasn't running I started it and ran

pacman -Sf firefox [i]othermenuitemmissingapps[/i]

to do an in place reinstall of the apps in question and it did not add the menu entries for any of them.