> When applying any changes to the gnome applications menu via alacarte the
> file - applications.menu,
> in the directory /home/user-name/.config/menus is modified (by alacarte) but
> no change to the menu occurs.
> (for example showing or hiding a menu item). To make this work correctly
> alacarte needs to modify the file
> applications-gnome.menu to allow items to change in the menu. This requires
> a simple change to the file
> MenuEditor.py in the alacarte source code replacing the single occurance of
> applications.menu with
> applications-gnome.menu.
> The best way to do this is to download the source rpm and extract the archive
> then extract the alacarte source
> and modify the file and create the new archive to overwrite the old one then
> use rpmbuild to build a new alacarte
> rpm module and use yum to reinstall this module. Once done alacarte works ok.
> One more thing.
> I upgraded from Fedora 15 to Fedora 17 and am running Fedora on VmWorkstation
> in Windows.
> After turning off the forced fallback mode and logging off and back in again
> gnome 3 works in the normal mode
> except for 3-D effects. Having got used to the fallback mode this is very
> different and my first real experience of the
> new gnome 3 shell. Overall Fedora 17 works fine in VmWorkstation apart from
> some problems with mouse operations.
> For example to resize windows I can only use the diagonals not the sides and
> when using software like the advanced tweak tool
> menu selections act a little like x-windows menu selections requiring one to
> press the return key to get the menu to stay.
> Anybody had similar problems?
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