fslint menu items still gone...

[rikona]

Hello Jim,

Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 4:10:26 PM, Jim wrote:

> On 11/09/2016 04:57 PM, rikona wrote:
>> I formatted/reinstalled 16.04 and things are going well except for a
>> very few items. I use fslint all the time - it is an important pgm for
>> me, but it is still useless because the menu bar is still blank and
>> thus I can't really do anything useful with the pgm.
>>
>> I left /home the same with the reinstall so it might be that something
>> there is causing the problem. I could not find anything in hidden
>> files that seemed to relate to fslint, so not sure what it might be.
>>
>> Seems that fslint uses python and gtk. Is it possible that I have the
>> wrong versions installed and/or activated? I have gtk2 and gtk3 and a
>> gazillioin files related to gtk. I think I have python 3.5 and python
>> 2.7 and a gazillioin files related to python. If I do have the wrong
>> versions, could I possibly build fslint on this box and get it to work
>> with the installed versions and/or get the versions I need without
>> mucking up the existing install?
>>
>> Can someone please check to see if fslint has an active menu bar, with
>> items listed, in 16.04? Perhaps the available build of fslint is too
>> old to run properly in 16.04?
>>
>> As far as I can tell, everything works except the menu bar - I can
>> search for dups, for example, and they are found and displayed. I just
>> can't tell the pgm what to do with the dups it found...
>>
>> I'd like very much to get this running and would greatly appreciate
>> any help in fixing this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>   rikona
>>
>>

> You have probable already checked this but just in case. The menus
> for fslint are not appearing in the so called menu bar at the top of
> the window are they. Every once in a while this still catches me off
> guard. 

A good thought, but they don't appear in either place. Also, if I
change settings to put the menus in either of the 2 places, it still
never appears in either place at either setting.

Thanks for the reply.

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 rikona