Re: programs not appearing on desktop menu
joe golden said:
> I am running the testing version of debian and have recently
> installed povray, zed, circlepack and cooledit among others. None
> of these recently installed programs appear on my desktop. I can
> call them from an xterm, but can't get them directly from the
> desktop as with my other programs. Any ideas??
what window manager? how are you going about installing them?
debian packages usually provide menu entries. if they are not
debian packages its very unlikely they will automatically create
entries. and some window managers have to be manually updated to
see the menu changes. e.g. in afterstep i have to run a task called
"Update startmenu" at times after a new program is installed to see
it. i think enlightenment is the same or at least it was a year or so
ago. not sure about other window managers afterstep is the only one
i use.
to manually update menus in the system try 'update-menus' this will
build the system menu tree. its rarely needed to do this manually
though.
nate
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