> This is a known issue that has affected a number of users. > > If you look on the bright side you now have a much cleaner menu, and you > can limit it to the few applications that you might want to run in dom0 > (hint - very few.) > > You can copy the files from out of a Fedora based qube if you have one. > > If you still have the install medium then you can extract the desktop > files for applications that you want, by pulling them from the rpm > packages: > > For example, to get the xterm .desktop file: > > mount qubes.iso /mnt > rpm2cpio /mnt/Packages/x/xterm-318-2.fc23.86_64.rpm |cpio -idv "*.desktop" > > This will extract xterm.desktop in usr in the current directory, and you > can then move it in to /usr/share/applications > > You can, of course, put this in a loop and iterate over all the Packages > on the install disk, if you must. > > If you have neither Fedora templates, nor the install medium, then you > can write desktop files simply enough, or get them from another user. > > I should say that NOT having dom0 entries is in my opinion a good thing > - when I'm preparing Qubes for a new user I almost always delete them, > and radically simplify the menu. > > unman > > > RESOLVED
I mounted the install media and extracted the desktop files as per your instructions. Creating launchers from the desktop worked too. Desktop files for the applications I wanted imported fine, but the xfce settings manager is empty when I open it. That's fine, though. Thanks, Unman. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/36159cd4-dade-1d75-0563-266b782b711d%40posteo.de. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
