Hi, not sure if this helps but, by default, some .desktop files have the
value NoDisplay set to "true" and therefore will not appear in the XFCE
menu. This happens with wine (for instance), causing the "Other" sub-
menu to disappear randomly. This may be the cause of some of the menu
problems stated here (I have no idea how to solve the crashing panel
stuff).
To correct this, you can set the value manually for each .desktop file
you want to appear in the menu, or use a script to set all NoDisplay
values to "false" automatically (which will probably result in unwanted
and/or duplicated menu items, which you will have to edit or remove by
hand).
I chose the latter (which incidentally did result in unwanted and duplicated
items, but I simply removed the .desktop files associated to them, they were
less than the hidden items and less of a hassle to deal with).
Here is the script, which must be run as root. It works for Fedora, not sure if
Ubuntu stores XFCE menu files in the same directory though.
#!/bin/bash
cd /usr/share/applications
ls|grep desktop |
while read file
do
sed s/"NoDisplay=true"/NoDisplay=false/ $file > temp_$file
mv temp_$file $file
done
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/53897
Title:
Disappearing panels/menus in Xubuntu
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