On 07/27/2017 03:20 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> 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.
For future lurkers, this also works: qubes-dom0-update --action=reinstall <list of below packages> xfce4-settings-4.12.0-6.fc23.x86_64 xfce4-screenshooter-1.8.2-5.fc23.x86_64 xfce4-power-manager-1.6.0-4.fc23.x86_64 xfce4-about-4.12.1-3.fc23.x86_64 xfce4-panel-4.12.0-4.fc23.x86_64 xfce4-session-4.12.1-6.fc23.x86_64 xfce4-sensors-plugin-1.2.5-3.fc23.x86_64 xfce4-taskmanager-1.1.0-4.fc23.x86_64 xfce4-terminal-0.6.3-8.fc23.x86_64 xfce4-notifyd-0.2.4-8.fc23.x86_64 xfce4-appfinder-4.12.0-4.fc23.x86_64 The list of packages to specify here is pretty easy to see from the output of "rpm -V" in dom0. -- 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/41eeb8a9-ced0-4ba8-6d1c-b0628f867c8e%40zoho.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
