Trying to find my application menu...

[Thomas Milne]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Milne
<tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Actually I'm trying to figure out if maybe this is a bug. I have lost
> all entries in my Gnome menu except for system settings and Gnome
> preferences and so on. If I click on 'more applications' in the Gnome
> menu, however, I get 'Failure loading - applications.menu'. When I try
> a locate on that, I get:
>
> /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu
> /etc/xdg/menus/kde4-applications.menu
> /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-10
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-11
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-12
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-13
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-14
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-15
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-16
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-17
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-18
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-19
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-20
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-21
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-22
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-23
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-24
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-25
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-26
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-27
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-28
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-29
> /home/joehill/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu.undo-30
> /usr/share/app-install/desktop/applications.menu
>
> I found some tips that the menu should be
> /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu, so I copied over the file from
> /usr/share, but that did not help at all.
>
> I also tried ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu
> /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to no avail.
>
> Before I submit a bug report, I just want to see if this is something
> I might have inadvertantly borked myself. Anyone else seen this or
> have any tips to illuminate?
>
> Thanks!
>

I suppose I should mention, this began on Debian Testing, and has
persisted up to now that I am running Debian Unstable.


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