[xubuntu-users] update-manager not on any of the menus and can't be put there?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 08:53 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
> On 11/23/2012 01:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 20:48 +0000, Andy Proctor wrote:
> >> On 23/11/12 14:07, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Knute Johnson
> >>> <ubuntu at knutejohnson.com> wrote:
> >>>          If I go into the Settings Manager, select Main Menu, select
> >>>          a submenu (in this case System) and then attempt to enable
> >>>          the Software Updater (which is update-manager) program on
> >>>          any of the menus it disables itself in a few seconds.  I hit
> >>>          the checkbox next to update-manager and a few seconds later
> >>>          it un-checks.  Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I don't think yo are doing anything wrong: I did a clean install of
> >>> XUbuntu12.10 and appear to have the same problem !
> >>>
> >>> Actually it doesn't appear to have anything to do with the
> >>> update-manager itself, as I tried enabling other items in the system
> >>> menu and they too disable themselves a second after I check their
> >>> boxes !
> >>>
> >>> Definitely a good case for a bug report IMHO ! :-/
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Vince
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Agree, I've tried what you said and have the same problem.
> >>
> >> Andy
> >
> > Delete ~/.cache, I couldn't change fonts and e.g. even after editing
> > Evolution's config I couldn't change anything, because Evolution and
> > e.g. the appearance settings were used from the cache, even after
> > rebooting.
> > After deleting the cache, until now everything is ok.
> >
> > Hth,
> > Ralf
> 
> That didn't work.  Do you need to be root to change menus?

No, this can be done with user privileges.

I did edit my menu with Alacarte (the app for "Main Menu") and I
experienced that I couldn't edit all entries as wanted. I couldn't
uncheck some, but delete them, I also couldn't add some apps that I
deleted some time before to the same menu were they were before, instead
I had to put them to the sub menu "Other", deleting the cache indeed
didn't help.

:(