On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:56:08PM -0600, Brad wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:29:27PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: > > > > I had the same problem a couple of times. What I found to work > > was: > > 1) Drop to a shell, exiting X completely > > 2) Run update-menus as root > > 3) Run update-menus as your regular user > > Note that this step will mean that you have to run update-menus as your > user every time new packages are installed, the automatic mechanism > won't work for that user anymore.
Urk. So *that's* what happened. I was wondering about that. > The normal configuration refers to global files that are updated when > the package postinst runs update-menus (as root). Running update-menus > as the user creates these files in the user's directory, so the global > ones aren't used anymore. How can I fix that now that I've screwed it up? I've looked around in my home directory and the only menu file I can find is a file for a menu entry that is specific to this specific username. And it was because of that particular entry that I started doing the update-menus as a user. But I use that package so rarely that I can do without the menu entry. (It was a /net install of Star Office) -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.