Lost "System" entries in GNOME

flamelab · 2008-10-01 11:57:03

Good afternoon.

I had been using GNOME for a long time, since I switched to KDE3 and then KDE4.

I had once edited with AlaCarte the "System" entries, so that the menu the is unfolded, doesn't fill the whole screen from the top to the bottom, so I created subcategories and I moved the entries in "system" in those subcategories.

I hadn't logged on in GNOME for a month. When I logged in, I found that many KDE "System" entries had filled this Menu. I decided to move them according to what I had done last time with the GNOME entries. Everything with AlaCarte.

And .... the greatest failure came. The entries I had created where named as "alacarte-1" (on their own !)and so on. I couldn't edit them after that.

I logged of and logged in. They had appeared.

So what I would like to ask: how can I completely restore GNOME settings and System Menus ? Completely. I can't find something in /etc/xdg/menus for "System" or in .config/menus . I had even deleted all the files in there and reinstalled KDE and GNOME. KDE hadn't any problem, GNOME had

Last edited by flamelab (2008-10-01 11:59:05)

byte · 2008-10-01 21:58:02

What about ~/.gconf/apps/panel? Back it up somewhere, delete it and relogin.

flamelab · 2008-10-04 20:27:16

That didn't work

aveightor · 2008-10-04 20:30:33

try pacman -S gnome-menus

slumslayer · 2008-10-04 20:34:14

There is a "Restore" button in alacarte. Have you tried it ?

BTW, the system menu file is : /etc/xdg/menus/settings.menu and is owned by gnome-menus

Last edited by slumslayer (2008-10-04 20:35:53)

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#1 2008-10-01 11:57:03

Lost "System" entries in GNOME

#2 2008-10-01 21:58:02

Re: Lost "System" entries in GNOME

#3 2008-10-04 20:27:16

Re: Lost "System" entries in GNOME

#4 2008-10-04 20:30:33

Re: Lost "System" entries in GNOME

#5 2008-10-04 20:34:14

Re: Lost "System" entries in GNOME

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