Games Menu Entry Missing

[Mike Perry]

Great. I retested and you are correct, you do not need to log out/in.

You could also set system wide PATHs in /etc/bash.bashrc or similar
(depending on your distro). What did you need to change in the
slim.conf, just the PATH?

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On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Willie <matthews.willie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>>
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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?
>>> >>
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>>> >
>>> >
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