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Re: Lost menu



On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 15:02 -0700, Jeff D wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Bernard Fay wrote:
> > A while ago, I installed CrossOver from Codeweavers which appeared in my
> > menu Applications of Gnome.  Since an updated those menu for CrossOver are
> > gone.  In Alacarte Menu Editor, I can see those menu as visible but I don't
> > actually see them.  What might be wrong?

If you select "Applications" in Alacarte, is "Visible" ticked for the
Crossover menu? 

> I'm going to guess that you have the menu package installed, if so take a 
> look at :
> /usr/share/doc/menu/html
> that will explain how to get your menus all straight.
> 
> but for example, I use a version of rxvt that I've compiled myself, so in 
> ~/.menu Ive put a file nameed rxvt with this in it:
> ?package(rxvt):needs="x11" section="XShells"      \
>     longtitle="Rxvt: terminal emulator for X"            title="Rxvt"\
>     command="/usr/local/bin/rxvt -bg black -sl 5000 -fg white -fn fixed 
> -vb"
> 
> then run update-menus, and I get a menu option under Xshells named Rxxt.

Actually, GNOME doesn't use the Debian menu system, it uses the
freedesktop.org menu specification. 

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