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Re: gnome1 -> gnome2 menu problem



On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 12:03, Christian Arthaber wrote:
> * Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de> [2002-10-30 17:51]:
> > 
> > Christian Arthaber <c3rv@gmx.at> wrote:
> > 
> > > i guess i have something strange here: there's no menu entry for fonts,
> > > none for the control center, none for nautilus. i figured out that when
> > > running gnome-control-center everythings where it presumably should be -
> > > but why nothing shows up in the menu? 
> > > on startup i said i wanted to keep my settings - what gave me an error
> > > and thus i decided to take the default settings when i was asked again.
> > > after seeing the menu-situation i deleted the .gnome2 folders and
> > > restarted the session. no changes.
> > 
> > I had the same problem.  After I removed some obsolete files from
> > /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders, the 'Applications' menu looked much
> > better.
> > 
> > I did "dpkg -S /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/*":
> > 
> > libgnomevfs2-common: /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users.vfolder-info
> > dpkg: /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info not found.
> > libgnomevfs2-common: /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info-default
> > libgnomevfs2-common: /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/favorites.vfolder-info
> > libgnomevfs2-common: /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/preferences-all-users.vfolder-info
> > dpkg: /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/preferences.vfolder-info not found.
> > dpkg: /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/programs.vfolder-info not found.
> > libgnomevfs2-common: /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/server-settings.vfolder-info
> > libgnomevfs2-common: /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/start-here.vfolder-info
> > libgnomevfs2-common: /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/system-settings.vfolder-info
> > 
> > and then removed the unknown files.
> > 
> > 
> >         Juergen
> 
> hi!
> 
> tried it out and voila everything changed and every menu entry i missed
> is now where it should be. 
> thanks alot for your help. and thank you for pointing my attention to
> dpkg -S - didn't know this option existed. man dpkg helped.
> 
> christian
> 
Worked here too.  I just thought gnome2 didn't have all the menu items
anymore.  I was wrong-- cool!

Jamie Strandboge

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