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renodesper

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Alacarte couldn't run on Gnome 3

after installing a fresh Arch with Gnome, I'm having problems in running alacarte ... after check by running it through a terminal, an error occurs as follows:

does anyone know what the problem is and how to fix this?

Last edited by renodesper (2011-05-08 05:39:13)

austonst

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Registered: 2011-05-02

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Re: Alacarte couldn't run on Gnome 3

I did some googling and found that this is a more widespread problem (See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23737?dev=2039 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647382 ). As Ionut Biru posts on both pages, the Settings category does not exist in GNOME 3. Sure enough, line 56 of MenuEditor.py appears to be related to the loading of the settings section. I have no idea how important the settings section is to the rest of the program; it might be a simple problem or a more ingrained one. Is Alacarte still being maintained? If so, I think this would be something to take up with the developers. Otherwise, it may be time to learn to manually edit the menu files. (see example and element list at http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-a … 3.html.en)

renodesper

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Re: Alacarte couldn't run on Gnome 3

but strangely this only happens after I install alacarte in a fresh-install Arch... before, I try to update on another computer and all its functions can be used, only on this computer I experiencing this error

penguin.powered

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Registered: 2010-01-20

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Re: Alacarte couldn't run on Gnome 3

I think that alacarte has been discontinued for GNOME 3.  You can enable/disable menu entries using

gmenu-simple-editor

For making any other changes to menu items you need to edit the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/

Jhael

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Registered: 2010-12-01

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Re: Alacarte couldn't run on Gnome 3

They are not kidding about "simple-editor". Only thing you can do is toggle things shown/hidden. Can't add, can't edit, can't nothing. Pretty effing useless.

Last edited by Jhael (2011-05-07 19:48:58)

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Re: Alacarte couldn't run on Gnome 3

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renodesper

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Re: Alacarte couldn't run on Gnome 3

thanks for your concern ewaller, I'm sorry because I forgot to read the forum etiquette policy

fabioamd87

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Re: Alacarte couldn't run on Gnome 3

it is possibile to add subfolder in the menu?

Inxsible

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Re: Alacarte couldn't run on Gnome 3

fabioamd87, please do not necrobump threads. Read the forum rules. Closing...

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