SOLVED:Miro doesn't show in menu

[djohnston]

This is the same problem as posted here -> http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,92375.0.html, only theirs was with KDE. I've looked at the /usr/share/applications/miro.desktop file, and I really don't see any errors. Maybe I'm missing something, but I still haven't figured out why this desktop entry doesn't show in the menus. I also used the lxMenuEditor to create a launchable item. The Miro icon appears in the System group of choices when creating the launchable item. But, nothing appears in the lxmenu.

[pinoc]

yeah, weird stuff. Can't see any error in the desktop file, played with some other settings in there but can't get it in the menu either, strange indeed. 

[Neal ManBear]

Same here. Added ShowIn=LXDE; - didn't help. Tried various other edits. Nothing helped.
I can not spot any error in the .desktop file.

[daniel]

Same here. Added ShowIn=LXDE; - didn't help. Tried various other edits. Nothing helped.
I can not spot any error in the .desktop file.

Try this  

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cp -a /usr/share/applications/miro.desktop $HOME/.local/share/applications/

wait few seconds

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rm -r $HOME/.local/share/applications/miro.desktop
Did it by libreoffice..., and works here...

[AS]

Same here. Added ShowIn=LXDE; - didn't help. Tried various other edits. Nothing helped.
I can not spot any error in the .desktop file.

Try this  

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cp -a /usr/share/applications/miro.desktop $HOME/.local/share/applications/

wait few seconds

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rm -r $HOME/.local/share/applications/miro.desktop
Did it by libreoffice..., and works here...

If this is going to work it means that the "rm" statement will be enough, no need to "cp", ... else I need to change job!

AS

[daniel]

you can use cp -s /usr/share/applications/miro.desktop , and you don't need to remove this symbolic-link. But it's display after remove the file from your /home/<USER>/.local/share/applications/miro.desktop in your startmenu.

EDIT:
Installed Miro, and try cp, but no luck  
What goes here wrong  

Will now add a new user...

[daniel]

found the error...

LXDE User must remove this line

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TryExec=dbus-launch mirofrom desktop file, and it will display in the startmenu...
and remove %f from the next line. This is not really needed, because Miro starts video by a right click on it.

EDIT:
my file looks now

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Miro Internet TV
GenericName=Internet TV
Comment=Watch online video
Comment[de]=Multimedia Player
Comment[es]=Reproductor multimedia
Comment[fr]=Lecteur multimedia
Comment[it]=Lettore multimediale
Icon=miro
#TryExec=dbus-launch miro
Exec=dbus-launch miro
Terminal=false
Categories=GTK;AudioVideo;TV;Player;P2P;News;FileTransfer;X-MandrivaLinux-Multimedia-Video;Video;
MimeType=application/x-miro;application/x-democracy;application/x-bittorrent;video/dv;video/mpeg;video/x-mpeg;video/msvideo;video/quicktime;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-nsv;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;application/x-matroska;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;audio/x-wav;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-pn-realaudio;misc/ultravox;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;image/vnd.rn-realpix;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;video/ogg;audio/ogg
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.11
Good Luck

[djohnston]

found the error...

LXDE User must remove this line

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TryExec=dbus-launch mirofrom desktop file, and it will display in the startmenu...
and remove %f from the next line. This is not really needed, because Miro starts video by a right click on it.

Alright, Leiche! Don't know why, but making those two edits to the desktop file worked. There's now an entry in the Video section for Miro Internet TV.