[xubuntu-users] Xfce Main Menu Editor has stopped working

[Rob Ward]

Problem: In Settings Manager, Main Menu and Menu Editor fail to start.

Thanks to  Chris and Lutz for prompt replies.

I am not sure what is happening here but on following up these replies 
and a hour or so of web searching, I tried renaming folder .config/menus 
to .config/menus1 to hide it from the program and that allowed me to use 
the two menu editing programs again.  Good progress.

When I tried to enter my new application as a menu item, I had the 
selection in the "toplevel" position and when I had finished editing and 
saved, it did not appear.  So I went to start the editor again, and 
again the editors were non-functional.  I again renamed .config/menus, 
and the editors worked again.  This time I made sure the editor was 
pointing into the Electronics area before starting to create the new 
application entry. This time, when saved, it appeared in Electronics and 
could be re-edited and corrected without any problem.  This maybe an 
error that was mentioned by a few people in web pages about menu entries 
"disappearing" and wrecking the system. People were saying it was 
something to do with where the new entry was landing.  It presently 
seems to be part working and part not working?

So advice: if Main Menu and Menu Edit refuse to work, delete 
.config/menus, and begin again,
and secondly,
Choose a Category other than top level to create any new menu items, 
just to be safe.

Apologies: I think I may have tried to create a menu item yesterday, not 
checking it immediately and not knowing about the "toplevel" thing. Then 
gone away thinking I had got it working and later returned to do some 
more menu editing and "mysteriously" those functions had stopped 
working.  Someone wiser in the ways of Linux may like to take a look at 
this, or help me understand what I was doing wrong.

Cheers to people who have taken an interests in this.

-- 

*Rob Ward*
Lake Tyers Beach, 3909
Lake Tyers Beach Website <http://www.laketyersbeach.net.au>

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