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snorkel

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Registered: 2004-02-11

Posts: 44

Anyone know why newly installed programs don't show in KDE 4.2 menu?

Hi,
running KDE 4.2 and when I install new program they go into the lost and found menu instead of the
category where they should be, for instance I installed K3b and instead of going into the Multimedia category it goes into Lost and Found.

Later,

Snorkel

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: Anyone know why newly installed programs don't show in KDE 4.2 menu?

Did you try running kbuildsycoca to rebuild the menus? It says to when you install KDE with pacman. As to why this doesn't happen automatically, no clue.

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-02-18 15:42:55)

Dead Code

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Registered: 2009-01-18

Posts: 227

Re: Anyone know why newly installed programs don't show in KDE 4.2 menu?

is kbuildsycoca4 and kbuildsycoca the same?

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: Anyone know why newly installed programs don't show in KDE 4.2 menu?

Dunno. Is one there and the other not, or are they symlinked to each other, or is one a script launching the other? (Don't have KDE right now)

thecdn

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Registered: 2007-06-12

Posts: 21

Re: Anyone know why newly installed programs don't show in KDE 4.2 menu?

I'm at work now so I can't test this but I noticed the same problem after last nights install of the new iso, opera installed properly but didn't appear in the internet menu. I've never experience this problem with arch before.

Is running kbuildsycoca a one-time thing that will fix future pgm installs or will this behaviour continue in the future?

toad

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 1,775

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Re: Anyone know why newly installed programs don't show in KDE 4.2 menu?

Nope, it ain't. 4 is for kde 4 apps and the other for kde 3 apps. For example, install kaffeine, run kbuildsycoca4 and it won't do one jot.

Stick this

alias updatemenu='kbuildsycoca && kbuildsycoca4'

at the end of your .bashrc, it'll sort you...

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aglarond

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From: Texas, USA

Registered: 2008-11-20

Posts: 129

Re: Anyone know why newly installed programs don't show in KDE 4.2 menu?

is kbuildsycoca4 and kbuildsycoca the same?

Not with kdemod, anyway. kbuildsycoca is part of KDE 3.5. kbuildsycoca4 is part of kde4. I've been running the latter and it's worked for me. Also, run kdemod-config-updater first if you're running kdemod4. There should be a note about it in your pacman.log. Just search for menu.

-mS