Xfce Not Loading .desktop File

[Foxy]

Mark Kane wrote:

>Mark Kane wrote:
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>>Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
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>>>Andrew Conkling schreef:
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>>>>On 10/25/05, Mark Kane <mark at mkproductions.org> wrote:
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>>>>>Hi everyone. I am setting up Xfce on another machine and I'm having a
>>>>>bit of trouble. For the most part, new applications that I install
>>>>>through the FreeBSD ports system create the .desktop files in the proper
>>>>>location. A few have not, so I created them manually in the right
>>>>>location (/usr/X11R6/share/applications/) and they all worked but one.
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>>>Hmm, maybe a silly question, but are the openoffice programs in the 
>>>PATH? Can you run them from a terminal?
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>>Yep.
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>>It seems like an odd issue to me since in the past usually restarting 
>>the Xfce panel refreshed them, and certainly a restart of Xfce itself 
>>did. I can't see anything wrong in the syntaxes and the path of the 
>>applications directory is correct.
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>>Thanks
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>>-Mark
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>Don't mean to bug, but any more ideas on this? The .desktop files for 
>OpenOffice still are not showing up on the menu (and no Office category 
>is present at all either). They are in the correct path as the rest of 
>the .desktop files that do show up properly, but the OpenOffice ones 
>still do not. The OpenOffice binaries are in the $PATH so that shouldn't 
>be it either.
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>I'm giving this box to my boss to use soon and he's completely new to 
>*nix so he needs everything to be in the menu.
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>Thanks a lot!
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>-Mark
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I had a similar problem with 4.2.2 version. In my case the path to apps 
was not straightforward. What I mean it was something like

/opt/openoffice.org2.0/programs/soffice swriter for Writer (with some 
switches between soffice and swriter). I had to change it to a simple 
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/programs/swriter to make  menu entries to appear 
in xfce menu. I am not sure if it's helpul for you at all..