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thibdb13

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From: Mechelen - Belgium

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 114

Gnome - submenus (games)

Hello,

I recently switched from KDE to Gnome and I'd like whether there exists under Archlinux a package that organizes the games in sub-menu's. I found such a package in Fedora, Debian and Edubuntu a it is quite useful.

shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 456

Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

what do you mean in "organizes the games in sub-menu's"?

you can "play" changing menu in: system->preferences->main menu.

ezik

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

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Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

Do you have any installed? It should be there by default.

pacman -S gnome-games gnome-games-extra-data

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thibdb13

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From: Mechelen - Belgium

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 114

Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

Do you have any installed? It should be there by default.

pacman -S gnome-games gnome-games-extra-data

I tried it but it does not work. Maybe because gnome-games-extra-data is from the 2.30 release and gnome-games from the 2.32 one?

shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 456

Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

i don't think so.

i got them both in the diferent versions

you tried to install.

what do you mean doesn't work?

what error you get?

ezik

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

The menus in gnome are based on the menu information each game's package contains in its .desktop file (try pacman -Ql game_name | grep desktop). There's no specific package to replace all those in Arch. Best to do it manually. Or just use gnome-do or some other launcher.

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PirateJonno

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-04-13

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Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

Pretty sure you can edit /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu and files in /usr/share/desktop-directories to get this. Not sure how though...

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trusktr

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Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

Are you saying you don't have a "Games" sub-menu in your "Applications" menu?

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michy99

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Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 21

Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

I think he wants to categorize them in sub-menus. Just right click on Applications, choose Edit Menus, and arrange them however you want.

thibdb13

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From: Mechelen - Belgium

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 114

Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

i don't think so.

i got them both in the diferent versions

you tried to install.

what do you mean doesn't work?

what error you get?

ezik

I do not get any error. The installation was OK but there weren't any sub-menus.

thibdb13

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From: Mechelen - Belgium

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 114

Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

I think he wants to categorize them in sub-menus. Just right click on Applications, choose Edit Menus, and arrange them however you want.

Thanks for correctly answering in my place.
I know I could arrange the menus up to my wishes but I am a bit lazy and so prefer this to be done by a package as in other distributions

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

Fedora package info:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/a … ccfc7c0e3c
Source:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=games-menus.git

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PirateJonno

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 372

Re: Gnome - submenus (games)

If that doesn't work, you could extract the files I mentioned from http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/i38 … s/download

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