On Saturday 13 January 2001 03:21, you wrote: > can someone tell me exactly what files menu editor edits because on my > system it does not edit those files under ~/.kde/share/applnk/....i know > this because if i use the menueditor to change the command for kpackage > to include kdesu at the beginning it is not reflected in my menu, in > fact menu editor reports the command to execute as kpackage -u, whereas > ~/.kde/share/applnk/...../kpackage.desktop>right > click>properties>execute shows kpackage -u -caption etc.etc (or some > such-it's definitely not the same though). if i change this here to > read 'kdesu kpackage etc' then launching from the menu gives me a > password box before launching kpackage BUT, AFTER I LOG OUT AND LOGON > AGAIN it has been reset to launch kpackage in user mode, > > i cannot therefore personalise my menus except by editing the icon files > by hand and this only lasts until i logon again, this isn't th only sort > of change that gets undone but that's another story > > i'm using kde under lm7.2 i have always found this to be the case depite > several reinstalls (for other reasons), the last reinstall was onto > freshly formatted space incl. the /home partition. > > i would be grateful if someone could help me to personalise my menus > with some certainty of those change being permanent! > > bascule do not use the kde menu editor... Do not use the editor off the panel bring up a terminal $ su - password: (root password) # cd /home/username # menudrake Make your changes in the menu and then hit the Save button and wait. When the message banner at the bottom says save completed--you are OK If you try to edit menus as a user with menudrake in a terminal, you will see that it fails to save to /etc/menu because the permissions are wrong. Civileme
