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[Patton Echols]

On 09/17/2009 05:21 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 09/17/2009 04:45 PM, Patton Echols wrote:
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>> On 09/17/2009 10:51 AM, NoOp wrote:
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> ...
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>>> $ sudo update-menus
>>> $ man update-menus
>>>   
>>>       
>> Ah HA!  I knew there was something.  If you are willing to extend my 
>> learning just a bit more, Is this a command you were already familiar 
>> with?  Or is there some thought process you went through to find it.  
>> The latter is of most interest to me.  I find myself often scratching my 
>> head and finally resorting to google.  But my querys only seem to point 
>> to some CLI command about 20%, when I would prefer about 90.
>>     
>
> I learned it when trying to troubleshoot some bugs  & customize menu
> items sometime back. Can't recall which one's they were just now.
> Sometimes '$ killall gnome-panel' will do the trick, but 'update-menu'
> works better (for me anyway).
>
> Gary
>
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>   

Thanks Gary,  I have a growing list of things I have learned.  One more 
thing to add!