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

[Knute Johnson]

On 11/26/2012 1:57 AM, Mark Trickett wrote:
> Message: 1 Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:50:41 +0000 From: Andy Proctor
> <xubuntu.list at gpshelp.co.uk> To: xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Subject:
> Re: [xubuntu-users] update-manager not on any of the menus and can't be
> put there? Message-ID: <50B13321.9060406 at gpshelp.co.uk> Content-Type:
> text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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
>>
>>
> I ran into this just last night. I noticed that there's an update to
> Alacarte (the software that is the menu item editor in Xubuntu 12.10)
> and it's been accepted into Pre-Release Updates Proposed. So, in
> Software Sources/Updater, I enabled backports, ran an update, and it was
> fixed.
>
> Mark

Was it called Alacarte?  After I enabled proposed and had it search for 
updates, it found a bunch but none that were called Alacarte.

Thanks,

-- 

Knute Johnson