On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 19:11:31 +0100, Mortella wrote: > Customizing main menu doesnt work at all. When I want to add new > folder to main menu in applications:// , or modify an entry (.desktop) > it fails saying : "can not save changes to applications:/ something > ... Error writing file X.desktop, read only file System" or sg. like > this. Even if user is root and/or if /usr/share/applications chmoded > to 777. On my RH9 with XD2unstable I can easily add remove, organize > etc my menu. > > What did I missed ? The desktop team at Red Hat disabled the menu editing functionality of GNOME 2.4, due to the vfolder implementation being too buggy, in their (or HP's ;) opinion. (Can't comment.) You can reactivate it /at your own risk/ using the instructions at the bottom of the following page: http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/repository.html A safer way of editing the menus would be to follow Michael Knepher's mini-tutorial at: http://www.bluethingy.com/linux/rh8menu.html --Kai
