Rebuild main menu from scratch?

Cybe R. Wizard cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Fri Jul 9 15:09:47 UTC 2010


On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:31:05 -0000
Cameron Hutchison <lists at xdna.net> wrote:

> You may find a bunch of *.desktop files in
> ~/.local/share/applications. These will contain any changes you have
> previously made to the menu from your user account.
> 
> /usr/share/applications should contain all the .desktop files for the
> software actually installed on your system. If you run
> 
> $ dpkg -S /usr/share/applications/*.desktop > /dev/null
> 
> then any errors you see will be for .desktop files not belonging to
> any package.

Thanks for that, Cameron.
Being somewhat paranoid I dumped the command into a text file instead
of /dev/null.  
Lo, only /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-nvidia-settings.desktop was
missing according to the dpkg error response.  I know for a fact that
lots more is actually missing and the text file seems to contain all of
those.

I have resorted to hand-altering the menu from the main menu editor.

It seems strange that a menu-rebuild utility isn't included.  I now wish
that I had programming skills in order to build one.

Cybe R. Wizard
-- 
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	Winduhs




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