You might be able to undisable them with menudrake (either as root to configure system menu, or as a user to configure your individual menu)
Do you have the problem in all users? If not you can simply create a new account for yourself. derek On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:35:12 +1200 Morgan Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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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