From a terminal window in KDE run kbuildsycoca. This program is the one
I had a similar problem some time ago and it had to do with the wrong ownership of a file. Try the following: that updates the KDE menu entries. See if you get any error messages. If you do, check your /tmp directory for a file named ksycoca in the /tmp/kde-username directory (replace the username part with your username!). If the ownership on the ksycoca file is not correct (i.e. it is root), the menu will never get updated. Fix the ownership and rerun kbuildsycoca. You should be fine now. Avi --On Wednesday, November 07, 2001 08:38:41 AM -0200 Jose Thadeu Cavalcante <thadeu@cbpf.br> wrote:
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 01:42, you wrote:
Hello All,
Could someone offer at least a suggestion as to why a clean install of SuSE Pro 7.3 won't show the start (KDE) menu that was updated bu K->Configure Panel-> Menu Editor... I see the edits each time I do this, but no matter what I do, they WILL NOT show up in the menu. Even programs that install themselves to the menu are not showing up, but will show up under the menu editor.
HELP!!!
Regards,
Keith B.
Even in SuSE Pro 7.2 happens this irritating problem. In my case, when I login as root all the new items are in menu, but when I login as user the items are hidden. As a "solution" I use a radical way, delete the directory .kde2. Instantly a new .kde2 directory is create using the root configuration. I believe that is possible to do the right if you delete some specific subdirectory of .kde2. Be careful.
-- Avi Schwartz avi@CFFtechnologies.com "I have to share the credit. I invented it, but Bill made it famous." - IBM engineer Dave Bradley describing the control-alt-delete reboot sequence