On Sunday 08 May 2005 18:54, mike wrote: > magnet wrote: > > I started menudrake from a konsole as <user> and again, my old menu was > > loaded and showed up fine. I clicked on "Save" and checked the menu from > > the toolbar to see if the new settings had been applied but the settings > > had not been used. It must be saving the menu settings somewhere but the > > system is using it's own copy of a cut-down menu config file and I have > > no idea where this might be, thus making menudrake effectively useless. > > > > On Sunday 08 May 2005 16:21, mike wrote: > >>Try running menudrake as user open up XTerm or what ever you use and > >>type menudrake and select your menu and save. See if that helps. > >> > >>I'm sure someone can help you here, just post back we'll go from there. > >> > >>Mike > >> > >>magnet wrote: > >>>Hi, I'm running 10.1 and kde3.2. Woke up this morning to find a screen > >>>saver had activated itself and the K menu has been altered and only a > >>>limited number of applications are now showing. > >>>Last time this happened I had to resort to a complete re-install, along > >>>with 600mb of downloaded upgrades and it took ages, as I could not find > >>> a way to correct it. > >>>I have run menudrake from mcc but saving the menu and logging out and > >>>back in, or rebooting, made no difference. In menudrake I can see my old > >>>menu, but cannot get the system to use it. > >>>Can anyone offer some assistance as I really don't want to do another > >>>massive re-install. > >>> > >>> > >>>Thanks > >>> > >>>magnet > > Any luck with Kaj's suggestion? > > <snip> > It won't harm to (as root) in a terminal : update-menus -v -n > and then repeat it as a normal user. > > Kaj Haulrich. > <snip> > > Some updates messed with the menus I forget which ones or versions > of mdk. > > Mike
I tried update-menus -v -n but it made no difference. I looked in /etc and there seem to be some menu related folders but not sure what they do or hold.
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