xfdesktop menu file location problem

[Jannis Pohlmann]

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.

  - Jannis
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