Xfce Not Loading .desktop File

Andrew Conkling andrew.conkling at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 21:37:27 CEST 2005


On 10/25/05, Mark Kane <mark at mkproductions.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> OpenOffice is a different story though. So far, I have been through
> about 15-20 different restarts of Xfce and maybe 5 reboots of the
> machine hoping that it would refresh and load the .desktop file to put
> the entries on the menu under "Office". As of yet, there are no entries
> or even an "Office" category on the Xfce menu.

Maybe you've already done this, but rather than creating your own, did
you try simply copying the ones that OOo installs to your applications
dir?

Hope this helps,
Andrew

>
> Here is what the .desktop file I created looks like:
>
> -------------------------------------------
> openoffice.desktop:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=OpenOffice
> Comment=Office Suite
> Exec=openoffice-2.0.RC3
> Icon=/usr/X11R6/share/icons/appicons/openoffice.png
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> Categories=Application;Office;
> --------------------------------------------
>
> That is basically just copied from another one that worked and edited to
> fit OpenOffice.
>
> Here is one of the ones that OO includes in it's install:
>
> --------------------------------------------
> draw.desktop:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Terminal=false
> Icon=openofficeorg-20-draw
> Type=Application
> InitialPreference=2
> Categories=Application;Office;X-Red-Hat-Base;X-SuSE-Core-Office;
> Exec=openoffice.org-2.0 -draw %U
> MimeType=application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics-template;application/vnd.sun.xml.draw;application/vnd.sun.$
> Name=OpenOffice.org 2.0 Draw
> Comment=Create and edit drawings, flow charts, and logos by using Draw.
> Comment[en]=Create and edit drawings, flow charts, and logos by using Draw.
>
> [translations follow]
> --------------------------------------------
>
> I'm not sure what's wrong here. The syntax in both looks correct. I've
> emptied the cache in ~/.cache/xfce4/desktop/ with no luck.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Mark
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