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

[Knute Johnson]

On 11/24/2012 10:49 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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.
>
> :(
>
>

I found a bug for this.  It is specific to Xubuntu.  alacarte writes the 
menu file to the wrong name on Xubuntu.  I just copied my 
~/.config/menus/applications.menu file to xfce-applications.menu file 
and it now works fine.

It is supposed to be fixed in R(can't remember) and they said there was 
a fix in Quantal proposed but I can't find it there.  The work around is 
OK for now I guess.

Bug #1069207

Thanks,

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Knute Johnson