xfce4 desktop menu gone from panel - Gentoo
Hello,
I have this ridiculous issue where my desktop menu has mysteriously disappeared from my panel. Regardless of my searching around, I seem not to be able to add the desktop menu which includes shortcuts to most installed programs to the panel. However, I can still start it by right-clicking the desktop. Now, how can I get the menu back in the panel, I tried with add new items but it just isn't there. thanks, Lieven |
This has happened to me before too.I found out that going into /home/.cache/sessions and deleting the files that you find there and restarting xfce fixes the problem (Well it did for me).I hope it does for you.
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thanks for your tip, I tried that but didn't help me.
I'll try to recreate the menu with help of the xml files in the profile information. |
Did you perhaps accidentally delete the menu by right-clicking and clicking on 'Remove from panel'? If so, right-click and click 'Add to panel', selecting the Desktop Menu when the window 'Add to panel' comes up.
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right click on the panel -> add new items
in the search field write xfce menu mark xfce menu and click add fix settings and drag and drop etc |
Thanks for your replies, I did try these things but the xfce menu is not in the list with possible items to add to the panel.
Maybe I need to emerge some package to get the menu of xfce but can't find which. regards. |
try xfce4-popup-menu in commandline
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Kindly list them here: |
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Possible items in Right-clicking on panel -> Add New Itemss... : Launcher Action Buttons CPU Frequency Monitor Cpu Graph Clock DateTime Disk Performance Monitor Generic Monitor Icon Box Keyboard Layouts Mount devices Network Monitor Notes Notification Area Places Quicklauncher Screenshot Separotor or Spacing Show Desktop System Load Monitor Task List Verve Command Line Weather Update Window List Workspace Switcher Quote:
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# xfce4-popup-menu Code:
# cat /etc/xdg/xfce4/panel/panels.xml These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.6.4 USE="startup-notification -debug" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB |
nerevin
Hello, There seems to be a serious problem, I checked my Panel right click , Xfce menu was clearly mentioned there. anyway check you out the following threads, and see if that helps you: http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=5057.0 and http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-L.../msg01275.html |
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1. Add XFCE_PLUGINS="menu" to /etc/make.conf 2. emerge -av1t xfdesktop 3. Right-clicking on panel -> Add New items -> Xfce Menu -> Add My steps: From first link: Xfdesktop is the component that provides the menu for the Xfce panel. Code:
# genlop xfdesktop | tail -4 Code:
# emerge -avt1 xfce-base/xfdesktop Next, I add XFCE_PLUGINS="menu" to /etc/make.conf and re-emerge xfdesktop. Then I've tried add menu to panel. |
nerevin
Thank you for posting the exact solution ! |
thanks
yes, thank you, I'll try this one as soon as I can.
I'll let you know if it worked. edit: this worked for me, thank you. Still, I don't realy see why it did install the menu at first without the line in make.conf and then it just vanished after some months. |
Haaaaaahh!!
@nerevin tnx! after struggling wth it for hours and hours finally your solution worked. there's also another thread with the same solution (I found simultaneously): http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...7889e87057e347 |
hi
i'm very new at this |
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