Okay, this is nuts. I edit my Kmenu with the menu editor and it won't change no matter what. I even move icons in ~/.kde2/share/applink/ and nothing happens. anyone have any idea what's going on here? I'm running 7.3.
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:15:54AM +0100, John Scott wrote:
Okay, this is nuts. I edit my Kmenu with the menu editor and it won't change no matter what. I even move icons in ~/.kde2/share/applink/ and nothing happens. anyone have any idea what's going on here? I'm running 7.3.
By default, you get the SuSE menu instead of the standard KDE menu. Are you changing the menu items under SuSE with the menu editor (should be the first sub-menu) or the standard KDE menus? You can control which menu you get in Control Panel / Look & Feel / Menu Settings. Changes you make manually in ~/.kde2/share/applnk will be merged with whatever default menu you are using. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MSCE, N+ you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net
kwinston@twmi.rr.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:15:54AM +0100, John Scott wrote:
Okay, this is nuts. I edit my Kmenu with the menu editor and it won't change no matter what. I even move icons in ~/.kde2/share/applink/ and nothing happens. anyone have any idea what's going on here? I'm running 7.3.
By default, you get the SuSE menu instead of the standard KDE menu. Are you changing the menu items under SuSE with the menu editor (should be the first sub-menu) or the standard KDE menus?
You can control which menu you get in Control Panel / Look & Feel / Menu Settings.
Changes you make manually in ~/.kde2/share/applnk will be merged with whatever default menu you are using.
Best Regards, Keith
I've tried with the merge box checked and unchecked. I'm not using the SuSE menu. I think this may have something to do with SuSE mods for the SuSe menu. The interesting thing is that I can't find an identical menu directory tree anywhere on the system. I have no idea where this is being merged from. If I delete apps from ~/.kde2/share/applnk they are still there when I reboot. Even if I delete them from /opt/kde2/share/applnk. How is that possible?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 March 2002 11:23, John Scott wrote:
kwinston@twmi.rr.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:15:54AM +0100, John Scott wrote:
Okay, this is nuts. I edit my Kmenu with the menu editor and it won't change no matter what. I even move icons in ~/.kde2/share/applink/ and nothing happens. anyone have any idea what's going on here? I'm running 7.3.
By default, you get the SuSE menu instead of the standard KDE menu. Are you changing the menu items under SuSE with the menu editor (should be the first sub-menu) or the standard KDE menus?
You can control which menu you get in Control Panel / Look & Feel / Menu Settings.
Changes you make manually in ~/.kde2/share/applnk will be merged with whatever default menu you are using.
Best Regards, Keith
I've tried with the merge box checked and unchecked. I'm not using the SuSE menu. I think this may have something to do with SuSE mods for the SuSe menu. The interesting thing is that I can't find an identical menu directory tree anywhere on the system. I have no idea where this is being merged from. If I delete apps from ~/.kde2/share/applnk they are still there when I reboot. Even if I delete them from /opt/kde2/share/applnk. How is that possible?
i had the same problem. then just aimlessly deleted my kickerrc file whilst having drunk far too much and had enough of the problem. Now I have a well behaved SuSE submenu and a normal kde menu. Tom - -- fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8nbv/AEYnIVU7X9IRAvhBAKCE3GCGOa5wM8vEdEhsQvO9XspkhACfVrif rIM2TtAj7wm1dH6LYPL7xJg= =yANH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:23:26PM +0100, John Scott wrote:
I've tried with the merge box checked and unchecked. I'm not using the SuSE menu. I think this may have something to do with SuSE mods for the SuSe menu. The interesting thing is that I can't find an identical menu directory tree anywhere on the system. I have no idea where this is being merged from. If I delete apps from ~/.kde2/share/applnk they are still there when I reboot. Even if I delete them from /opt/kde2/share/applnk. How is that possible?
If you want to customize your menu from ~/.kde2, then you should leave the merging on. One advantage to using the SuSE menu is that it gets updated by YaST when you add/remove programs from the CDs. Of course, you can always use it as a sub-menu from the default K menu. My own testing (on 7.3) has shown the standard SuSE menu items to be in /etc/opt/kde2/share/applnk/SuSE. But remember these get updated by YaST so I think it is better to use merging to change the menu. The default KDE menu items appear to be in /opt/kde2/share/applnk/ as you noted, but they never get used unless you switch to the KDE menu instead of the SuSE menu. One other thing you might want to look at are the file permissions for your menus. If your ~/.kde2 items are owned by root, you might not be able to read them as a regular user. Also, KDE caches the menu for a short time, so changes won't show up immediately unless you turn off the cache which will tend to slow down the menu. Because of the way KDE merges menus (Gnome does too by the way), it can sometimes be hard to track down why the menu ends up the way it does. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MSCE, N+ you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net
Op zondag 24 maart 2002 14:31, schreef Keith Winston:
Also, KDE caches the menu for a short time, so changes won't show up immediately unless you turn off the cache which will tend to slow down the menu.
The caching is being performed by kbuildsycoca. Use that the resync the the cache perhaps it helps? -- Richard Bos For those without home the journey is endless
On Sunday 24 March 2002 07:31, you wrote:
One other thing you might want to look at are the file permissions for your menus. If your ~/.kde2 items are owned by root, you might not be able to read them as a regular user.
I would especially check permissions on ~/.kde2/share/config/kdeglobals. I'd suspect that something changed ownership to root. -Thomas Long tlong@eskimo.com -- Using SuSE Linux 7.3
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