[SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

Question

After last update the menu entries in LXDE menu disappeared. There are only two entries, Logout  and Run
Is there any way to restore the menu entries?
Last edited by leonidas (2014-11-17 18:16:14)

Answer 1

nbvcxz wrote:
1. broken panel config
please show (cat) us your panel configuration eg:
cat ~/.config/lxpanel/default/panels/panel
or
cat ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/panel
especially part Plugin type=menu
With the same problem, my cat showed:
Plugin {
type = menu
Config {
image=/usr/share/lxde/images/lxde-icon.png
system {
separator {
item {
command=run
separator {
item {
image=gnome-logout
command=logout
2. hidden all entities in menu
backup and remove local menu application
mv ~/.local/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications.bak
I did that, and my applications.bak directory contains lots of files with extension of .desktop
3. missing a part of menu
install again lxmenu-data, menu-cache and libfm-extra
sudo pacman -S libfm-extra libfm-extra libfm-extra
Did you mean to put libfm-extra three times?
Did you mean
sudo pacman -S lxmenu-data menu-cache libfm-extra
I tried that, but didn't have any pacman. I used apt-get to get it, and found myself playing pacman :-)
I tried
sudo apt-get install lxmenu-data menu-cache libfm-extra
and got the result:
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package menu-cache
E: Unable to locate package libfm-extra
4. launch panel from termian
if nothing helps start terminal stop lxpanel and start it again from terminal to see the output
lxpanelctl exit
lxpanel
When I run lxpanel (with the bare command, or as someone else suggested, with
lxpanel -p LXDE
) I get the error message
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1"
The panel starts OK, but still has only Run and Logout entries in the START menu.
I am running Ubuntu 13.04, accessing the server through tightvnc.
The file
~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/panel
begins with
# lxpanel <profile> config file. Manually editing is not recommended.
# Use preference dialog in lxpanel to adjust config when you can.
so I don't want to just add entries the function.
The preference dialog didn't seem to have a way for me to import other START menu entries.
Any help appreciated :-)
Jim