Lost parts of KDE startmenu?

qbase · 09-08-2003, 03:05 PM

I've lost my big parts of my startmenu in KDE. All I can see is:
"What to do", "Quick browser", "Recent", "Lock Screen", "Suspend to Disk", "Log Out"

I'm missing all the applications, multimedia, configuration etc. I've screwed this up for all my users including root. Not sure what I have done

When I run "Menudrake" I can see everything I'm missing, but I can't get the links to return. Tried everything, save, reload user, reload system, change my Menu style...

Any ideas howto solve this?

I'm running Mandrake 9.2 RC1.

Proud · 09-08-2003, 04:50 PM

I had the same problem, but just starting MenuDrake for the system menu and then saving seemed to generate the menus. Seems RC1 is very buggy, so 9.1 is still the best yet.
Do you have Konsole in Kde btw, or problems logging out and then not getting the MdkDM graphical login window?

kundor · 09-09-2003, 12:51 PM

I had this problem a great deal as well, in RC1. It seems sticking with 9.1 would have been a better idea

I actually wrote a script which temporarily fixes the problem, sometimes. If you download http://kundor.cwru.edu/unhide.pl then "chmod a+x unhide.pl" then put it in an executable directory (for example /usr/local/bin, or your home directory/bin),
then from your home directory do:
cd .kde/share/applnk
unhide.pl
(and restart kde)
It may temporarily fix the problem. Or it may not. :s Sometimes if I repeat the process twice it works, but just once does not.

On second thought, it's a stupid solution anyway.

qbase · 09-10-2003, 09:01 AM

Thanks, I'll try the script tonight. Couldn't fix it in Menudrake

Quote:

Do you have Konsole in Kde btw, or problems logging out and then not getting the MdkDM graphical login window?

It depends on how I log out

If I choose log out in the start menu I get the console. If I press ctrl-alt-backspace I go to the "MdkDM graphical login window".

What's the correct name for the start menu? It doesn't feel right, it's KDE not Windows

Proud · 09-10-2003, 12:57 PM

The K menu?

I found that if once I log out via the button, if I log in as root and execute service dm restart then MdkDM doesnt die after any susequent logouts. Seems there's a slight error in the Mandrake scripts which brings it back, but this is a working solution to prevent it happening after the first time after a reboot.