On Sunday, May 08, 2011 06:46:42 PM Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* C. Brouerius van Nidek [05-08-11 03:06]:

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In my Kmenu which I run in the classic form I find a lot of programs that I have removed and some that I have double, like kmail. I want to have the actual programs in my menu and get rid of the double entrances and old deleted programs. From earlier days I remember something like ksycoca which would rebuild the menu. How can I do that in KDE4?

Somewhat difficult, entails jumping thru many hoops :^)

<rt-click> on the menu icon select "edit menu"

or,

just invoke kmenuedit from the <alt><f2> prompt or a commandline.

Hoped for something automatically repair the menu. Did invoke kmenuedit but found that that does not solves my problem. Must be something strange in my menu. If I delete any of the double entrances and try to save the cleaned menu it starts saving from 0 to 100% over and over until I finally close the window. Doing the kmenuedit in a terminal after closing the endless saving session, I get following info: cannot delete /home/constant113/.local/share//desktop-directories Do not understand the "//" and desktop-directories are nowhere found. More ideas? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.39-rc6-19-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.6.3 (4.6.3) 20:08pm up 2:06, 4 users, load average: 1.24, 1.21, 1.49 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday, May 09, 2011 07:22:37 AM Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* C. Brouerius van Nidek [05-08-11 09:42]:

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Hoped for something automatically repair the menu. Did invoke kmenuedit but found that that does not solves my problem. Must be something strange in my menu. If I delete any of the double entrances and try to save the cleaned menu it starts saving from 0 to 100% over and over until I finally close the window. Doing the kmenuedit in a terminal after closing the endless saving session, I get following info:

cannot delete /home/constant113/.local/share//desktop-directories

Do not understand the "//" and desktop-directories are nowhere found. More ideas?

sounds like you have a misconfiguration somewhere. Try adding a new user and see if it has similar problems. The directory referenced s/b: ~/.local/share/desktop-directories I have that directory and it's populated with: -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 72 2011-01-15 15:48 wine-Programs-AS-EASY-AS-v1.6 for Win.directory -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 57 2009-12-14 14:20 wine-Programs.directory -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 56 2010-03-29 13:10 wine-Programs-ImgBurn.directory -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 64 2010-08-20 09:23 wine-Programs-Mozilla-Firefox.directory -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 71 2010-08-20 15:39 wine-Programs-Nikon Message-Center 2.directory -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 57 2009-12-14 14:20 wine-Programs-Picasa-3.directory -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 55 2010-07-20 12:03 wine-Programs-Qimage.directory -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 68 2011-02-20 11:03 wine-Programs-SSC Service-Utility.directory -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 57 2010-08-20 15:38 wine-Programs-ViewNX-2.directory -rw-r--r-- 1 pat users 51 2009-12-14 14:20 wine-wine.directory

and I am not aware of any "double entries" other than ones I added on purpose. Just copied the desktop-directories from a functioning 11.3 and voila, now it works. Thanks

-- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.39-rc6-19-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.6.3 (4.6.3) 14:12pm up 16:58, 3 users, load average: 2.15, 2.54, 2.59 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org