Games Menu Entry Missing

[Mike Perry]

The game menu will only be visible if you have a game installed and
its .desktop file contains the category "Game".

/usr/share/applications should have the majority of your .desktop files.

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 * Mike Perry
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Willie <matthews.willie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wwell over a month later and still no Games menu entry. Anyone have any
> ideas?
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Willie <matthews.willie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It has been awhile and I still don't have this problem fixed. Anyone out
>> there have any ideas?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Willie <matthews.willie at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It is "Game" for sure. Attached is one of my desktop files.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Bela Markus <bmarkus at hasix.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> See official specication at
>>>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
>>>>
>>>> It is 'game'
>>>>
>>>> Regards... Béla
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2011.11.27. 3:37 keltezéssel, Willie írta:
>>>>
>>>> I can not get my Games menu to show up in the Main XFCE4 menu. I was
>>>> having this same problem with my desktop and can't remember how I got it to
>>>> show.
>>>>
>>>> I am in the games group.
>>>>
>>>> I downloaded lxmed to see if there is supposed to be anything in there.
>>>> It shows in the menu editor.
>>>>
>>>> I also made a new user to see if the games menu would show up for that
>>>> user, the menu did not.
>>>>
>>>> There is also an entry in /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu that
>>>> says
>>>>
>>>>     <Menu>
>>>>         <Name>Games</Name>
>>>>         <Directory>xfce-games.directory</Directory>
>>>>         <Include>
>>>>             <Category>Game</Category>
>>>>         </Include>
>>>>     </Menu>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Willie Matthews
>>>> matthews.willie at gmail.com
>>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>> Willie Matthews
>>> matthews.willie at gmail.com
>>
>>
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>> Willie Matthews
>> matthews.willie at gmail.com
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