start menu problem

liljhand · 01-25-2005, 04:51 PM

i wuz trying to change the icons in the menu editor and when i wsaved it and clicked on the menu, it had changed. Now it is missing some options and i want the default menu that came wid mandrake.. any suggestions

rksprst · 01-25-2005, 10:40 PM

obvious suggestion, but is there a default button?
"reload system menu"? that seems like the default

reddazz · 01-26-2005, 12:14 AM

Try doing
$update-menus

There are a few options so you may wanna do
$update-menus -h
to find out the right options to restore your menu to the original Manndrake menu.

liljhand · 01-26-2005, 07:02 AM

there is no default option. infact the whole interface of menu editor has changed . when i restarted it, many optons were gone and i cant chnage anything except add more submenus

and the upddate-menu didnt help

Lakota · 01-26-2005, 08:23 AM

This may be of help:

Quote:

Tip
While modifying your menus, you might make a big mess out of them... Remember that you can reload the menus as you last saved them by pressing the Ctrl-R keys (or accessing the File->Reload user config sub-menu). You can also revert to the default menus by accessing the File->Reload system menu sub-menu.

The above tip is from the MenuDrake documentation. Copy and paste:
file:/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/Drakxtools-Guide.html/menudrake.html
into your browser address bar and press enter, if you have the doc installed it will appear in your browser. If not, the relevent part is quoted above.

liljhand · 01-27-2005, 11:17 AM

i think i know what the problem is. wheni went to root and see if i could change anything, Mandrake menu editor opened up. So now when i open the editor, it opens the k menu editor. how can i open the mandrake menu editor?

Lakota · 01-27-2005, 12:11 PM

simply open a terminal window and type "menudrake" without the quotation marks.

liljhand · 01-27-2005, 05:21 PM

well that opened the mandrake editor, and i set everthing to default but it still doesnt look like the old one. everything looks default in the editor but it is actuall not. isnt there any option that can override the k menu editor and keep mandrake menu's options?

Lakota · 01-28-2005, 08:11 AM

- open menudrake
- under the "Action" tab, choose "Modify menu style"
- choose "Use system administrator settings"
- under the "File" tab, choose "save"
- now check your menu