So today's other thread about menus helped me pinpoint my problem.
My permissions only allowed root to access the /usr/share/applications
directory. The culprit was installing openoffice from an rpm file. It
messed up my permissions somehow.
Cheers,
Pierre
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Hello,
I recently broke my system and some permissions got mixed up. As a
result only root gets gnome-menus. (It used to work before for all
users)
I have:
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/gnome/xdg
in /etc/profile and the variable is correctly set for any user logging
in.
I have tried running th
