Yesterday I added an item to the Development section of the main menu via MenuLibre (right click on Menu button then 'Edit Applications'). No matter what I did however, I could not get the Deveopment category to actually show up in the menu. As I had spent hours trying to iron out other problerms I shut down the computer to look at it again today.
Today I find that MenuLibre won't open via right-click or by selecting Menu Editor from the main menu. Checking task manager shows that it isn't running. How can I get it to work again without losing the changes I've made to the menu?
TIA
Paul
EDIT: I temporarily moved the desktop files out of ~/.local/share/applications and re-booted (actually I just tried to log out but that often ends in a reboot for some reason) - MenuLibre still doesn't work.
EDIT#2: I tried from a terminal and got this:
paul@HP-Pavilion-15 ~ $ menulibre
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ERROR:/build/buildd/gnome-menus-3.10.1/./libmenu/gmenu-tree.c:4022:preprocess_layout_info: assertion failed: (!directory->preprocessed)
Aborted
...means nothing to me though.
MenuLibre stopped working [Solved]
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paul59
MenuLibre stopped working [Solved]
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paul59
Re: MenuLibre stopped working
I found a 'fix' for this on askubuntu - delete the contents of ./config/menus. There is no explanation of why it works or what the real issue is.
Having regained access to MenuLibre it still isn't possible to get 'Development' to show up - see the screeny. Unless I am being extra dense there also seems to be no correlation between the MenuLibre ordering of items and separators and the actual menu.
I give up - a month of tinkering with a brand new computer just to get it to work for basic use is just too much.
I'll try Maya or failing that another distro.
Having regained access to MenuLibre it still isn't possible to get 'Development' to show up - see the screeny. Unless I am being extra dense there also seems to be no correlation between the MenuLibre ordering of items and separators and the actual menu.
I give up - a month of tinkering with a brand new computer just to get it to work for basic use is just too much.
I'll try Maya or failing that another distro.-
paul59
Re: MenuLibre stopped working
Goddamit I can't let it be! I renamed /home/paul/.local/share/desktop-directories/xfce-development.directory and Development now shows up in the menus. Maybe this file and the directory mentioned above are leftovers and shouldn't be in the XFCE version?