xfdesktop menu file location problem

[Enrico Tröger]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 01:22:19 +0200, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>
wrote:

> 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.
Sure? I also use only --prefix and all seems to be working fine. I
forgot to mention that my right-problem solved when I issued a
"ldconfig" as root. xfdesktop just couldn't find libxfce4menu. After
the ldconfig the right-click menu came back.


Regards,
Enrico

--
Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.key
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/attachments/20070401/5e1afc39/attachment.pgp>