On Friday, November 9, 2018 at 9:56:22 AM UTC-5, steve.coleman wrote: > There is one consistently reproducible way to destroy the Qubes menu, by > simply using the built in xfce/other menu editor to reorganize your menu > entries, if you happen to be the impatient type in trying to get it > done. I have tried every menu editor I could find, and they all seem to > do pretty much the same damage. > > Example: > 1) Right click on the xfce/Qubes menu button. > 2) Select properties from the popup menu > 3) Select the edit menu button. > 4) Select a sub-menu for any VM to edit > 5) Select an entry on the right to move an application up/down in the list > 6) Press the up or down button quickly in succession, say to move an > entry from the bottom of the list, up to the top of the list. > 7) Save the menu. > > Congratulations, you now have no Qubes menu at all, so lets hope you > still have a dom0 command window open. > > To recover the menu, start a template vm via qvm-run, and run dnf to > update or make any change that in turn forces a dom0 resync of the Qubes > menu items. Or perhaps you can just force a resync from the dom0 command > line (qvm-sync-appmenus), but I have not tested that. ... > Bottom line, don't be too quick with changes to the menu, or you will be > spending even more time repairing your system. The first time this > happened I had no clue how to recover.
Hi Steve, I know this was posted long ago, but would an alternate fix be to right click on the desktop, open terminal here, and then execute the following: qvm-appmenus dom0 ? B -- 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/de77700c-8c60-4f1b-92d2-fd4b7d7713ee%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
