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

[Andy Proctor]

On 24/11/12 18:56, Knute Johnson wrote:
> 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,
>
Dear Knute, this workaround solves it, many thanks! I look forward to 
the fix in a future release, till then all good!

Andy