add externalmenu to XFCE-menu...

[Matthias Schäfer]

> On 2/13/06, Matthias Sch?fer <m.schaefer at koios.de> wrote:

>> I'm using latest svn version of xfce4. I tried to add an external menu
>> to the xfce-menu (respectively to the desktopmenu) by editing the
>> ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml file. I added the following line:
>>
>> <include type="file" src="/etc/xdg/menus/debian-menu.menu"/>
>>
>> The //etc/xdg/menus/debian-menu.menu/ file exists and is a xml 1.0
>> formated menu (after freedesktop.org's menustandard). Why doesn't that
>> menu be displayed?
>  
>

> I've had a problem getting the menueditor to work with adding an
> external menu.  IIRC, opening up the xml file, I found that it was
> missing a closing </menu> tag.  Manually putting it in works fine.
> 
> I've been meaning to check bugzilla on this and report a bug if
> nothing was there.   (I just checked and didn't see anything.)  Maybe
> you could confirm that that works for you before I report anything?
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew



I checked it and there is no Tag missing. The debian-menu.menu file is 
ok. It should work but it doesn't.
This appearance (that simply no menu is shown, where it has to be) 
occurs with every .menu file. Even with the '/etc/xdg/menus/xfce4.menu' 
file.

mfg Matthias