Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 23:57:48 -0600 From: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfce upgrade kills xfce menus Message-ID: <AANLkTim-Tiw_Dji6cS14Ef9d4UUpMLO5TaPxOxspiOig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikVoea7QT=HnhJRx4JEj%2BsxV%2BEbmi-5MTgdoNaJ@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTik3vnTUGtJcmyoZPtzKV7uZFrnjcvoB0_kiZ27a@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=oWEZrqzcqUDQvi8Ff6UmXYW62-H%2B-3JpebVjm@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103042042430.86175@wonkity.com> <AANLkTin3RH7Rvsc9hiBEZKMYtvFqkoP%2BeRgcuNifmRBe@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103042101310.86175@wonkity.com> <AANLkTi=KPtZdydCvi4uA2_cH0=xqiWK-vCoGfsSc5et2@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinJH6DhXRnReVZ2N74Ou4im8R6cSRL0Ln3QZDq=@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikVoea7QT=HnhJRx4JEj%2BsxV%2BEbmi-5MTgdoNaJ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >>>> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Zhihao Yuan wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Unfortunately, neither 'portmaster garcon' nor 'portmaster -r garcon' >>>>>> made >>>>>> any difference here. >>>>> >>>>> I don't use portmaster, so I don't know whether these command can >>>>> *force* update a package. However, for portupgrade, a --force option >>>>> is enough to do so. I met the same problem, and I have fixed it with >>>>> an *force* update. >>>> >>>> 'portmaster -r garcon' is like 'portupgrade -rf garcon'. >>>> >>> >>> First, check whether you have the file >>> /usr/local/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu >>> If you don't have that, reinstall garcon. >>> >>> If you have the file, the menu should work, but! The xfce4 upstream >>> has a problem in their new menu architecture: the application menu >>> only looks for .desktop files at .local/share/applications. So, if you >>> see only a few entities in your *working* application menu, copy all >>> .desktop files under /usr/local/share/applications to user >>> applications directory, or just ln -s the whole directory. So far, I >>> found no other way to solve this. If someone knows more, please reply >>> this thread. >>> >>> -- >>> Zhihao Yuan >>> The best way to predict the future is to invent it. >>> >> >> OK. This problem has been solved. >> >> In the previous version, xfce4's script, startxfce4 requires a patch >> to work, which corrects the XDG_DATA_DIRS. In 4.8, this patch is not >> needed -- but since it was added as a post-patch command in the >> Makefile of the port, no one noticed that. And the command causes the >> problem. Now comment out the port-patch part of the file >> /usr/ports/sysutils/xfce4-utils/Makefile, and rebuild this port, then >> both icons and menus works. >> >> If you know who manages this port, please forward this mail to him. Thx. >> >> -- >> Zhihao Yuan >> The best way to predict the future is to invent it. >> > > I don't think that is the complete solution because I don't use > startxfce4 (See thread in ports) my .xsession (until I fixed as > described in that thread) was (yes only 1 line): > xfce4-session > 1st, tell me whether you can see the icons. I mean, the icons in xfce4-settings-manager (run this command). If you can, check my previous mail and see if you have the menu file. If you can see the icons, and you have the file, but the menu still does not work, then tell us *how* it does not work. Like the error message, something like that. -- Zhihao Yuan The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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