Thanks for your help, but Civileme's script seems to report every menu entry:
"...has been disabled check your menus" any ideas about "undiableing" them? Morgan > >If you are lucky simply running >updates-menus >might fix it for you. (try it as a user, then as root) > >Also try removing that .desktop icon you tried inserting in the menu. I do >not >know about Gnome, but I know that with KDE a corrupted menu entry will cause >the entire menu to crap out. > >If you search through the archives >(http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ ) Civileme once >wrote a script to check menus for corrupted entries. > >derek > > >derek >On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 6:44 am, Morgan Read wrote: >> I installed a programme recently, and noticed that the "GnoRPM" tool asked >> me where to put a ".desktop" icon that turned out to put an icon in the >> "main menu". >> >> Frustrated at the clumsyness of the menu editors and intrigued that their >> might be a process as straight forward as (and similar in simplicity to) >> the mac's "apple menu" buried somewhere in the system, I went to >> investigate... >> >> So, I logged in as root and went sniffing around in >> "usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus" and "usr/share/gnome/programs"... >> And, now the "main menu" has disappeared! >> >> No surprise to some I guess? The only thing I changed was the "Gnome Color >> Selector" that I opened in "gedit": changed the "comment [en_GB]" and "name >> [en_GB]" to "Gnome Colour Selector" (fair enough, I thought...). I opened >> some other files with "gedit" just for a look, but closed them without >> saving. >> >> First, as I was browsing with "nautilus" in the "Programs" directory (I may >> also have been browsing with gedit's file open dialogue) I noticed that all >> the Mandrake menu's had gone (yup, I looked in >> "usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus" before I looked in >> "usr/share/gnome/programs"). Then, after I closed "nautilus" and "gedit" >> and logged out of root and back into my account - holding my breath the >> whole time - I found the whole "main menu" had gone. I got an error >> message that the "main menu" couldn't be found... >> >> Any help with my "investigation" and putting the "main menu" back would be >> really appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Morgan. -- Morgan Read mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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