Re: programs not appearing on desktop menu
This thread gave me the clues to fix my problem--my Debian menus were
empty. Instead of having to edit the xterm file, I had to edit doc-linux-html, going to (approximately) line 420, and removing the extra quotes from the word "Pocket." Thanks to all, hope this helps somebody else.
Aidan
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:47:50PM -0500, burningclown@westhost43.westhost.net wrote:
>
> I too am running testing, and have had this prob in the past and have
> ignored it ... lately, some of these seem to have been resolved by
> running update-menus; others ... (like, oddly vim ... a recent
> development) remain.
>
> You can edit the menu files by hand, of course, butcha hafta -find- 'em
> first. And there are menu-editing packages for some of the WMs - icewm,
> for example.
>
> Glenn Becker
>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, joe golden wrote:
>
> > 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??
> >
> > uname -a>>>
> > Linux ssp10 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 i686 unknown
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Joe Golden
> > The Stevens School of Peacham
> > thestevensschoolofpeacham.com
> >
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