Application menu disappeared

[Member Barnabyh]

Hola!

For some reason I always seem to run into issues with antiX. This time, when updating the menu from the control centre to show an entry, hitting Apply seems to have wiped out the Applications menu entirely. This is true for all desktops. As this is user specific, it should not even have been able to write to /usr/share where the links are pointing, is that correct? All very odd. Previously I had installed LXDE and then removed it again and since then there were some issues with new application installations not updating the menu any more.

Can anyone advise how to regenerate the Applications menu?

Many Thanks.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Whatever is missing is in

harry@biker:~
$ cd /etc/skel
harry@biker:/etc/skel
$ ls -a
.                   .desktop-session  .gexec               .jwmrc       .smb.conf
..                  .dillo            .gtkrc               .local       .smbnetfs.conf
.bash_logout        .fehbg            .gtkrc-2.0           .mcthemes    .streamtuner
.bashrc             .fehbg.dpkg-old   .gtkrc-2.0.dpkg-old  .mplayer     .xinitrc-custom
.config             .fluxbox          .gtkrc-2.0.mine      .nanorc      .xmms
.conkyrc            .foxrc            .icewm               .newsbeuter  .Xresources
.conkyrc.dpkg-dist  .gconf            .jwm                 .profile     .Xresources.dpkg-old
harry@biker:/etc/skel
harry@biker:/etc/skel
$ cd .fluxbox
harry@biker:/etc/skel/.fluxbox
$ ls -a
.   apps  keys           lastwallpaper  menu-applications  overlay   startup
..  init  keys.dpkg-old  menu           menu.dpkg-old      personal
harry@biker:/etc/skel/.fluxbox

You poke around in there and copy things. Sounds though like you did a incorrect syntax on your menu entry and everything below that won’t show now because of your edit. That is why I make backups before I edit anything.

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[Member Barnabyh]

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Good advice ;). Thanks mate.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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When you removed lxde, did you remove lxmenu-data as well?

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[Member Barnabyh]

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Yes, I did. I suppose this means wrong move 😭.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Barnabyh wrote:

Yes, I did. I suppose this means wrong move .

Install it and see if your menus come back

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

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[Member Barnabyh]

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Thanks anti. Unfortunately they didn’t. Is there any command one needs to run to make the system update menus?

[Member sleekmason]

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Try update-menus in a terminal.

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