Re: [DNG] Menu of applications vanished from lxqt
On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 06:23:40AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 10:11:32PM +0100, aitor wrote: > > Hi Hendrik, > > > > On 7/2/22 19:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > I believe this started when I did a routine security upgrade, > > > and installed a program to convert markdown files to asciidoc format. > > Whoops! Checked apt history. Did that security upgrade, do not seem to hav > installed the convertor. > locate does not find the converter, even after I updatedb. > > I must have merely investigated what I would have to do. > > > > > You can try moving out converter's .desktop file from > > /usr/share/applications or /usr/local/share/applications to know whether > > the origin of the issue is in the installed program, causing the launcher > > to freeze. > > And I cannot find a .desktop file for the converter, either. > > In any case, the converter would have been installed using > gem install kramdown-ascidoc > so it wouldn't show up on the apt log even if I had installed it. > > > On the other hand, if I am not mistaken lxqt uses the openbox > > window manager, and I assume you aren't starting a window manager session > > instead of the desktop environment. > > Interactive aptitude tells me that openbox is not installed. > > So I must be using something else. > > I'm going to use the guest account and see if the same happens there. I log into the guest account. Everything is OK. There is a menu of applications in lxqt. So the problem isn't system-wide; there must be something in my personal setup. Perhaps something wrong with a dotfile? -- hendrik > > -- hendrik > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Aitor. > > > > > > > ___ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > ___ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Menu of applications vanished from lxqt
On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 10:11:32PM +0100, aitor wrote: > Hi Hendrik, > > On 7/2/22 19:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I believe this started when I did a routine security upgrade, > > and installed a program to convert markdown files to asciidoc format. Whoops! Checked apt history. Did that security upgrade, do not seem to hav installed the convertor. locate does not find the converter, even after I updatedb. I must have merely investigated what I would have to do. > > You can try moving out converter's .desktop file from > /usr/share/applications or /usr/local/share/applications to know whether > the origin of the issue is in the installed program, causing the launcher > to freeze. And I cannot find a .desktop file for the converter, either. In any case, the converter would have been installed using gem install kramdown-ascidoc so it wouldn't show up on the apt log even if I had installed it. > On the other hand, if I am not mistaken lxqt uses the openbox > window manager, and I assume you aren't starting a window manager session > instead of the desktop environment. Interactive aptitude tells me that openbox is not installed. So I must be using something else. I'm going to use the guest account and see if the same happens there. -- hendrik > > Cheers, > > Aitor. > > > ___ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Menu of applications vanished from lxqt
Hi Hendrik, On 7/2/22 19:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: I believe this started when I did a routine security upgrade, and installed a program to convert markdown files to asciidoc format. You can try moving out converter's .desktop file from /usr/share/applications or /usr/local/share/applications to know whether the origin of the issue is in the installed program, causing the launcher to freeze. On the other hand, if I am not mistaken lxqt uses the openbox window manager, and I assume you aren't starting a window manager session instead of the desktop environment. Cheers, Aitor. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Menu of applications vanished from lxqt
Normally, lzqt has an icon baar (which I think they call a panel) It contains icons 1, 2, 3, 4 for the available workspaces, and a few more little squares with icons for a ile manager, a qterminal, and a(I think) an editor. But in fromt of those icons, it normally has another little square. Clicking on that square puts up a menu with sibmenuse for various classes of applications. Starting a day or two ago that little square has been missing. This means that excpet for the applications I just mentioned, I cannot start any applications from lxqt. (Yes there's a workaround -- I can start anything I know the filename of from the command line in a qterminal. But that's not the way a desktop is really supposed to work.) And I can still log out -- if I use control-alt-F1, log in as root, and killall lxqt-session. I believe this started when I did a routine security upgrade, and installed a program to convert markdown files to asciidoc format. Does anyone else have this problem? Anyone know how I can get my menu of applications back? -- hendrik P.S. over the last year I occasionally would lose this menu, but it always came back when I powered down, rebooted, and logged in again. Not this time. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
