double synaptic in menu (lxde) [solved]

[0day]

double synaptic in menu> Software Center> Synaptic Package Manager with different icons.

[melodie]

Could you show with a screenshot ?

[0day]

how?

[melodie]

Do the screenshot with mpaint which is in the menus and send it to there : http://imageshack.us/

You will have to strech the picture to 800x600 or to 600x800. (With Gimp for example)

[0day]

ok with scrot

[melodie]

From within your console go to /usr/share/applications and there look for all synaptic.desktop files. Do with a "ls synaptic*" command. This directory contains the launchers of all applications (*.desktop file = launcher)

I find 2 in a Lxde mini install:

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$ ls synaptic*
synaptic.desktop  synaptic-kde.desktop
When I display their content (ie: with the "cat" command) one has a line that say "only shown in kde" and the other "not show in kde". One has an icon named "synaptic" and the other an icon named "synaptic.png".

/PS : a command line for scrot, such as "scrot -c -d 6 mypicture.png" allows you to have 6 seconds to reduce the console to the panel  so that the console is not seen on the screenshot. (And put a name of your own to the shot).

-c : for count
-d : for delay.

For more see "man scrot".

[0day]

 cd /usr/share/applications
[kevin@localhost applications]$ ls synaptic*
synaptic.desktop  synaptic-kde.desktop
[kevin@localhost applications]$

[melodie]

Move one out of the way to see if that solves the problem. Do:

$ su
passwd //here put your root password and hit enter
# mv synaptic-kde.desktop synaptic-kde.desktop-OLD

Then wait a few seconds and take again a look into your menus.

[0day]

not be resolved through updates?

[melodie]

not be resolved through updates?

Why should it be ? Synaptic is as it is and I'd be astonished to see a new Synaptic appear soon. The problem might be in the syntax of the file, but I would not know what precisely.

By moving that file out of the way you may solve it, and if not you can restore it next, by moving it back to what it was. (You will be able to rename it without the ".OLD" additional extension)

You can give it a try, it won't hurt.

[0day]

root@localhost kevin]# mv synaptic-kde.desktop synaptic-kde.desktop-OLD
mv: impossibile fare stat di `synaptic-kde.desktop': No such file or directory
[root@localhost kevin]#

[melodie]

You can "mv" (move) the file to a new name (rename it) only if, either you give the full path to the file, or if you are in the directory where theses files are located : that's to say, from within the shell (in the console).

First change directory:

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# cd /usr/share/applications
Then type again the command line. (Or call it back by pressing several times on the upper arrow of the keyboard arrow pad).

[0day]

ok solved thanks