KDE4 Menu Editor - Solved !!!

[dangbert]

This is so trivial I almost hate to ask.  I was using 2010, fully upgraded, but it appeared to have some faulty links on the multimedia side.  So, I downloaded 2010.1 and with two exceptions it is working perfectly.  One I have a work around on, the other is an inconvenience.  I cannot make any changes to the KDE4 menu.  I open Menu Editor, make my changes and hit save, just like always.  However, the changes are not saved and sometimes , if I have moved a sub-menu it, the sub-menu is deleted (restore brings it back).  It almost has to be a permissions problem, but where is the file?  I have looked in "/ect/xdg/menus," "/usr/bin" and /home/user/.menu" none of them makes a difference.

Thanks

Deb

[Bald Brick]

I have noticed that changes to individual menu entries seem to be saved in .desktop files under /home/<user>/.local/share/applications, while at least some changes to the menu structure show up in /home/<user>/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu.

But don't take my word for it. Checking the permissions of ~/.local/share/applications and ~/.config/menus (and some of the files in those directories) won't hurt though.

[everge48]

You could also try..

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su kmenueditand see if your changes stick.

[dangbert]

Well, I4revergr8ful, I  tried the latter, used the Super-User terminal instead of "su"

<unknown program name>(24824)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server:  "/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: No protocol specified
Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
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<unknown program name>(24823)/: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.


BLackbird, nothing in the /home/<user>/.config/menus/applications folder and nothing on Kmenu in /home/<user>/.local/share/applications,

Thanks

Dangbert

[Bald Brick]

Well,

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su kmenuedit won't work. That command does not tell bash to start kmenuedit as root: it tells bash that you want to become the substitute user "kmenuedit" (which most probably doesn't exist).

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kdesu kmenuedit might work though.

Well, I4revergr8ful, I  tried the latter, used the Super-User terminal instead of "su"

<unknown program name>(24824)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server:  "/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: No protocol specified
Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
"

<unknown program name>(24823)/: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.

The result would have been the same had you just sued to root in a terminal. Using the command

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su - instead of plain

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su might have worked.

BLackbird, nothing in the /home/<user>/.config/menus/applications folder and nothing on Kmenu in /home/<user>/.local/share/applications,

But did you check the permissions and owner of the folders?

[dangbert]

I had not checked the permissions, which were set to 766 .  Changed all to 777 and still no go.

Dangbert

[everge48]

Well,

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su kmenuedit won't work.

Right, right. It was late and I was tired. I had been reading about sudo and making a separate user account for firefox. My bad.
What I meant was open a terminal console then..

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su -

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kmenuedit
Anyway, seems OP got the gist of what I was saying.

Also you could try using kbuildsycoca4.

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kbuildsycoca4 --menutest

[dangbert]

Evidently the kbuildsycoca4 --menutest worked.  I just modified the Menu and the changes held.  When I ran it and opened the Menu, I saw the Sub-menu I had been trying to place.  I then moved to apps to it and saved.  That held.  I then added two apps to it and that held.  So we are good to go.

Thanks

Deb