On Saturday 30 November 2002 07:20 pm, Morgan Read wrote: > Hmm, tried this - no joy I'm affaid, Main Menu still vanished in all logins > including root. Still get an error message - "no system menus found!". > When I open the Global menu (right click on the Panel) the Gnome "Programs" > menu has no entries... :-( > M. > > >On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 17:44, 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] > > > >What you could do is to login as root again, open up a term window, > >navigate to your ~/home/yourname directory, and delete the .gno* > >directories underneat...(rm -rf .gnom*) - that way, when you login as > >YOU again, Gnome2 will regenerate all the basic Gnome2 menus, system > >menus - yadda yadda yadda.... > > > >-- > >Fri Nov 29 11:05:00 EST 2002 > > .o0 linux user:267497 0o. > >-------------------------------- > > <snip>
Missed most of this thread but have you tried doing an update and only selecting the gnome for desktops, this should reinstall the missing packages, maybe? -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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