Problem with GtkUIManager

Hi In my XML definition string, I set up a menu name=View element in a menubar, but did not define any menuitems inside. Then, I created GtkCheckMenuItems and tried to append them to the View submenu (using gtk_ui_manager_get_widget and gtk_menu_item_get_submenu). However, when I start the

Calling system from clickon processor

Am new to GTK+ 2.4 (Although I did try GTK 2 years ago. Glad to see that features I did not like are now depreciated Have written basic menu program to display buttons to select firefox, OO etc Clickon code is: void office(GtkWidget *widget,gpointer data){ system(openoffice -writer );