Trying to find my application menu...

[Thomas Milne]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Andrej Marjan <andrej-igvx78u1SeH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 4/10/11, Thomas Milne <tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Not knowing anything about Gnome, it seems like a config file is corrupted.
>
> Try moving them out of the way, one by one, starting with the one in
> your home directory, and see what happens.

Well, it was not as intensive as all that ... ;) But yes, it turned
out you were right about it being in my home dir.

Thanks!

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