xfdesktop menu file location problem

[Enrico Tröger]

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.


Regards,
Enrico

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