Re: [newbie] Gnome menu's gone West... help:-( SOLVED
Thanks for everbodies help - the only solution was to use GnoRPM to first verify all gnome graphical desktop packages and then re-install all that had errors by upgrading with the allow replacement of packages option enabled in the preferences. This process seemed possible only with GnoRPM and not Mandrake software manager rpmdrake. Thanks and by, Morgan. 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] -- Morgan Read mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome menu's gone West... help:-(
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] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome menu's gone West... help:-(
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. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn pain, n.: One thing, at least it proves that you're alive! -- Morgan Read mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome menu's gone West... help:-(
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Gnome menu's gone West... help:-(
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] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Gnome menu's gone West... help:-(
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] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
