Games Menu Entry Missing

[Willie]

I finally figured it out. It is because of SLIM login manager. Made a
change in /etc/slim.conf. Thanks for all the help that was giving to push
me in the right direction.

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Willie <matthews.willie at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was emailed a solution, thanks Lili-Anne. I have to delete the entry in
> the .desktop file that starts with "TryExec". I did it to one and didn't
> have to log out to make it work.
>
> I edited my .bashrc file so that I would have the games in my $PATH. Is it
> possible that I would have to have to fix the problem with it coming up in
> all users $PATH so that the games items will show in the menu? If so where
> to I start with that?
>
> Yes I do have "xfce-applications.menu"
> I am running version 4.8
> I have tried logging into a brand new user. Created an account and deleted
> afterwords!
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Mike Perry <mike at cogsmos.com> wrote:
>
>> Your .desktop file worked for me too. I just made a short bash script
>> and placed it in /usr/local/bin and then copied your .desktop file to
>> ~/.local/share/applications/. Logged out, then logged back in.
>>
>> Do you have a file named xfce-applications.menu in /etc/xdg/menus?
>>
>> What version of XFCE are you running?
>>
>> If you have installed the .desktop file global to all users, could you
>> try logging in as a brand new user?
>>
>> /*
>>  * Mike Perry
>>  * mike at cogsmos.com
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Willie <matthews.willie at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Seems so!
>> >
>> > ill at mini ~ $ which enigma
>> > /usr/games/bin/enigma
>> > ill at mini ~ $ echo $PATH
>> > /usr/games/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Willie <matthews.willie at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > I checked that out and I do have games. I don't see why it is
>> missing. I
>> >> > pretty much checked everything out already. I also uploaded one of my
>> >> > .desktop files. Here is another though.
>> >>
>> >> Works fine here. Maybe a stupid question, but is "enigma" visible in
>> >> $PATH?
>> >>
>> >> Nick
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Willie Matthews
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