On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:15:11 -0500 Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > > My "problem" is that I don't run Fedora's KDE. I compile KDE from > > KDE's Branch 3.5 SVN tree. So when "redhat-menus" is installed, my > > K-menu is hosed. Uninstall it, all is well. > > But the problem that everyone else seems to be having is, I think, > > different than mine, because no one seems to have mentioned that > > they compile KDE from source. (Even though I compile KDE from > > source, I DO NOT compile it for the same location that Fedora > > installs it's KDE rpm's in :)) > > > > Steven P. Ulrick > > > > P.S.: Just wondering: should I file a bug report against > > redhat-menus? > > Do what fc's packaging now does. Move kde's > /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to (something like) > /etc/xdg.d/kde/applications.menu and set environment variable > XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg.d/kde:/etc/xdg Hello, Rex First of all, thank you very much for a potential workaround to my problem. Before I ask my questions about what you proposed, can I assume that since you said: > > Do what fc's packaging now does. that this will not be a problem for me anymore once Fedora Core 6 comes out? Anyway, on to my questions: > Move kde's /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to (something like) > /etc/xdg.d/kde/applications.menu and set environment variable > XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg.d/kde:/etc/xdg Since there is no such thing as "/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu", I assume that I am to move "/usr/local/kde-svn-fc5/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu" to, let's say, "/etc/xdg.d/kde/applications.menu" Ok, just did that. Then I put XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg.d/kde:/etc/xdg export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS in my ~/.bash_profile Logged out, and logged back in, and my K-menu now looks like this: http://www.afolkey2.net/Kmenu-Screenshot-1.jpg I actually did /sbin/telinit 1 before I logged back in and was greeted with the K-Menu as shown above. I therefore assume that I did not follow your instructions correctly. I copied the Branch 3.5 applications.menu file back to /usr/local/kde-svn-fc5/etc/xdg/menus/ and got my menu back a few seconds later: http://www.afolkey2.net/Kmenu-Screenshot-2.jpg Just for fun, I installed redhat-menus from the development tree: redhat-menus-6.7.5-3.noarch.rpm This left my K-Menu alone :) I then tried removing that version, and installing the FC5 version. Now my K-Menu is just like it is supposed to be: Kmenu-Screenshot-2.jpg I have had this happen on rare occasions after having to reinstall redhat-menus when I run yum update. None the less, let me know if and how I misunderstood your instructions. Oh yeah, when I run $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS from konsole, the output is like this: [steve@afolkey2 ~]$ $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS bash: /etc/xdg.d/kde:/etc/xdg: No such file or directory Anyway, thanks for your help so far, and thanks in advance for however you end up helping me with this. Steven P. Ulrick -- 16:22:39 up 8 days, 20:20, 4 users, load average: 0.44, 0.82, 0.70
