(solved)missing start menu icons

did pacman -Syu yesterday and got a major upgrade. problem was i lost all my openoffice ,audacity.bzflag icons from the start menu. plus a few more. programs were still there, i could start them from the run command. just a little inconvenient that way. anyway i rolled back a few packages trying to find the problem and found after i rolled back to xproto-7.0.10-1 all the icons came back. now i only have one minor problem i'd like to straighten out. nothing shows up in the most used applications section of start menu. and that one i can't seem to figure out. any ideas? thanks
Last edited by flyer (2007-10-16 23:55:13)

Ok, I'm having this problem also.
Is their an easy way to install libx11 and or remove libx11-xcb? When I try to remove/unistall libx11-xcb pacman will not remove because it is depended on by other programs. Last time I ran accross something like this I removing the package and everything that depended on it with one pacman command, then one by one I had to reinstalled the packages that had depended on it....
I have no problem doing that, but just wondered if there was a better way.
#pacman -S libx11
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: libx11 conflicts with libx11-xcb. Remove libx11-xcb? [Y/n]
done.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: libx11-xcb requires aalib
:: libx11-xcb requires dbus
:: libx11-xcb requires libgl-dri
:: libx11-xcb requires libwmf
:: libx11-xcb requires libxext
:: libx11-xcb requires libxfixes
:: libx11-xcb requires libxkbfile
:: libx11-xcb requires libxrender
:: libx11-xcb requires libxt
:: libx11-xcb requires lirc-utils
:: libx11-xcb requires rdesktop
:: libx11-xcb requires sdl
:: libx11-xcb requires startup-notification
:: libx11-xcb requires tk
:: libx11-xcb requires x264
:: libx11-xcb requires xorg-xinit
:: libx11-xcb requires compiz-git

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