XFCE4 menu only showing applications in one category?
Andrew Robinson
andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 21:29:19 CET 2008
Correction, the Xfce4 Appfinder only shows them under Network, it does
not have the Wine category at all shown.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Andrew Robinson
<andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> As an example, I have safari installed via wine. Here is the
> ~/.local/share/applications/Safari.desktop:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Safari
> Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/anrobins/.wine" wine "C:\\Program
> Files\\Safari\\Safari.exe"
> Type=Application
> StartupWMClass=Wine
> Path=/home/anrobins/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Safari/
> Icon=/home/anrobins/.wine/drive_c/Program
> Files/Safari/Safari.resources/compass.png
> Categories=Wine;Network
>
> The xfce app finder shows this in both Wine & Network as expected, but
> the xfce menu does not. I made sure that my menu.xml file for system
> does not have unique="true":
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xfdesktop-menu>
> <menu name="Settings" icon="gnome-settings">
> <app name="Settings Manager" cmd="xfce-setting-show"
> icon="gnome-settings" snotify="true"/>
> </menu>
> <separator/>
> <include type="system" style="simple"/>
> <separator/>
> <app name="Help" cmd="xfbrowser4
> /usr/share/xubuntu-docs/about/xubuntu-index.html" icon="gnome-help"/>
> <app name="About Xfce" cmd="xfce4-about" icon="info"/>
> <builtin name="Quit" cmd="quit" icon="gnome-logout"/>
> </xfdesktop-menu>
>
> Yet still Safari only appears under Wine and not Network. I tried
> "xfce4-panel -r" to see if the panel simply needed restarting, but
> that did not help. Is there something else that I must do for the
> system menu to show applications in multiple categories?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
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