xfdesktop menu file location problem

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:32:59 -0700, Zach Carter wrote:

>
>
> Enrico Tröger wrote:
> > On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:48:41 +0200, Jannis Pohlmann
> > <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:53:20 +0200, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:39:57 +0200, <info at sten-net.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hey,
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:55:14 +0200, Enrico Tröger
> >>>> <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I just tested the new xfdesktop menu stuff. But my first test
> >>>>> was a bit disappointing because after compiling and installing
> >>>>> the current SVN version the whole menu disappears(the right
> >>>>> click menu on the desktop as well as the panel-plugin menu).
> >>>>> I got the message: Could not locate a menu definition file. So I
> >>>>> started to have a look at the code and what is going on on my
> >>>>> system.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> xfdesktop (or libxfce4menu, not sure) installs the file
> >>>>> xfce-applications.menu in etc/xdg/menus. Probably this works on
> >>>>> most systems, but not on mine.
> >>>>> I have my complete Xfce installed
> >>>>> in /home/enrico/apps/xfce-svn/, so the menu file is located
> >>>>> in /home/enrico/apps/xfce-svn/etc/xdg/menus. But xfdesktop
> >>>>> didn't find it there. After copying the file into
> >>>>> ~/.config/menus the panel-plugin menus appears and looks fine.
> >>>>> So, did I anything wrong while compiling and installing(I do it
> >>>>> the same way like before since about a year). Or may it be a
> >>>>> bug in the menu file location code of xfdesktop?
> >>>> You need to export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS or XDG_CONFIG_HOME like
> >>>>   export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=
> >>>> $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:/home/enrico/apps/xfce-svn/etc/xdg or
> >>>>   export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=
> >>>> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME:/home/enrico/apps/xfce-svn/etc/xdg
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't remember how xfdesktop does it, but in theory this should
> >>>> work.
> >>> Nope but thanks anyway.
> >> Update your SVN checkout - we just found out what was wrong. Just
> >> do
> >>
> >>   export
> >> XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/home/enrico/apps/xfce-svn/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg
> >>
> >> and it will work.
> > Thanks a lot. All is working now as expected, yeah. Great work.
>
> I've been having a similar problem with the right-click menu.  The
> panel menu has been working fine the whole time.  I just updated my
> SVN checkout, rebuilt xfdesktop with --prefix=/opt/xfce-dev, and the
> right-click menu is still not working for me with these paths:

--prefix is not enough. You also have to define --sysconfdir.

  - Jannis
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