On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> "B. K. Barley" wrote:
> >
> > >From a user perspective in regards to this menu issue,
> >
> > I just would like to know how to add things to the default menus that
> > don't get added. For instance, when I install Star Office, or Compupic,
> > or some other app that is not included with the distribution, I can not
> > add it to the menus. I have looked at the documentation for 7.1 and
> > searched all around the docs in cooker but found nothing.
> >
> > Bryan
>
> As root, click on the big 'K' (assuming you're using kde) ->
> Configuration -> Other -> Menu Editor
>
> From there you can change your menu to whatever you want.
>
> Mike
Well, I'm mostly a perenial newbie lurker spying on y'all, but
this seems to only work if I log into root's desktop. If I make the
changes from my user desktop (ie, su to root to start 'kmenuedit'),
they aren't 'lasting'. By that I mean they might last thru several
reboots to W98 to fly airplanes... but they might not either, even
from root. Sometimes a re-start of X causes the loss. I never have
figured out a common denominator. About < 25% of the time, I log
into my user desktop to find all my menu customizations have been
lost :( (7.1 from lland.com CD's, expert-full enchilada-medium
security) I never had this situation with Mdk <= 7.0
What seems to have solved this, at least for the time being
<knock on wood ;> , is I made a /usr/share/applnk copy dir,
/applink-bak. The last time I lost additions, I copied (as root,
and from root's desktop) /applnk-bak dir contents, overwriting, to
.../applnk. So far, so good.
Several flights later ;> DC3 or Songbird
"out of the clear blue western sky......... comes SkyKing! "
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~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
