Menu editor not working

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 02:46, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> Good morning everyone.
> I am trying to use Mint 19, but since this seems to be based on Ubuntu,
> someone suggested I may not be thrown out of here right away.
>
> Problem:
> I made (as far as I can tell identical) clean new installations of Mint
> 19 (formerly used Mint 17.2) on 3 different PCs, all o which are
> somewhat older.
> The menu editor does work in 2 out of them, including one very old PC,
> but not the one here in my office.
>
> When I try to add some "New Item", there is no response to clicking that
> button at all.
> Other buttons like "Properties" do not work.
> When asked whether I would like to add a launcher created on the desktop
> also to the menu, this does not work either.
> I also installed Alacarte, but the behavior is exactly the same.
>
> Is there a magic trick, some setting anywhere, that can resolve this
> "problem"?
> It is not really a problem, but used to work under Mint 17.

What desktop?

Tell us about the hardware and the drivers.


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