Cinnamon-Menu-Settings not properly working

[tuxmint007]

Hi

After upgrading vom 17 to 17.1, some menu-entries and context-menu-settings (like "change backgrounds") are not starting while clicking on it. Ex. "System Settings" is not opening, "Preferences -> Backgrounds" is not opening, "Preferences -> Applets" is not opening etc. etc. But I'm able to start the system-settings on the cli with "cinnamon-settings".

Any hints for this?

Kind regards,
Tom

[JosephM]

Did you try opening one if the ones that was giving you issues from the terminal? You can use "cinnamon-settings backgrounds" for example. See if it's giving any errors.

[tuxmint007]

I tried this and there's not error (within the cli) and the window appears as expected. Just in the Menu, some programs doesn't start.....:

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$ cinnamon-settings backgrounds
Python module
Loading Backgrounds module
__init__ took 211.895 ms

[JosephM]

Hmm, you try right-clicking on your start menu icon and choosing "Configure". In the dialog that opens, at the bottom choose "Open the menu editor". In the window that opens you can choose "Preferences" in the left column and then "Backgrounds" on the right. Click the properties button. Make sure the command is set to "cinnamon-settings backgrounds". Sorry if you already know this stuff but I'm not sure what the problem might be.

[tuxmint007]

Right-clicking on my start-menu and choosing "configure" doesn't work. The "about" entry works. Starting applications with the start menu works also. Just some indiviual settings like "Backgrounds", "Date and Time", "Applets" etc. are not starting while clicking on it.