On Thursday 04 October 2001 08:03 pm, Bob Underwood wrote: > Hi all, > > This situation was mentioned on debian-user some time ago, but not > answered. If this isn't the appropriate list, please let me know and I'll > go elsewhere. > > I just did a fresh install of woody on my son's machine by using a 2.2r2 cd > to install a base system, then apt-get upgrade then apt-get distupgrade. I > then installed x-window-system along with icewm and eterm. So far so good. > > I then installed the kdebase packages and selected kde applications (plus > some additional non-kde apps). The only things that show on the menu are > packages that would be listed with a search on the packages page for > descriptions using the search criteria "kde". Even such as Gimp, eterm, > xterm, don't appear. > > On my machine, the kdm log-in gives a choice of default, icewm, and > failsafe. On the new install, only default and failsafe appear. > > I'm a debian newbie (migrated from Corel Linux about a year ago) and > haven't a clue where to begin to figure this out. Any help would be > appreciated. > > The machine is a 450 mhz, k6 with 128 mb ram.
Actually, the menu problem isn't with kde. There's a bug in the menu information for Xterm (the Unicode version). As root, I modified the line of the name (placed it in quotes) and reran update-menus. Now all the Debian menus appear. Logan Bear
