Comments on: If your Debian menu in GNOME ever disappears

By: sixerjman

sixerjman — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:07:58 +0000

Also, select System/Preferences/Main Menu, then Applications and see if you have ‘Debian’ there. If so, check the submenus under Debian you would like to have.

By: sixerjman

sixerjman — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:00:20 +0000

Thanks for the article. h, make sure alacarte is installed.

By: h

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:05:03 +0000

Hi. I have menu-xdg installed, but no despite this there’s no Debian menu among the GNOME menu…

By: lyxmoo

lyxmoo — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:07:27 +0000

Not fit for my desktop yet. that must be a huge hole for the debian families’ beginner such as me.

By: Alberto

Alberto — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:04:49 +0000

Thanks for the clue! It seems that I had a similar problem. I got back the “Applications” menu just by reinstalling menu-xdg (the same version already installed). I lost it yesterday when I updated “etch” using the version 20060118 of the DVDs (I was using 20051104 previously; menu-xdg was one of the updated packages). Actually the problem was that every time I clicked that menu, it appeared for less than a tenth of a second and then disappeared. I thought the cause was gconf2, because its version was 2.12 when all the other gnome packages were 2.10, so I downgraded it, but it solved nothing. In fact I’m not sure if it has something to do with the problem because I still keep the downgraded version. I suppose not.

Alberto

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:47:51 +0000

Hi
apt-get install menu-xdg was the clue. I spent almost hours on the problem how to get the debian menu entry back. Thank you for the posting. Great work! Btw, happy new year ;-)
Adrian

By: Barry Hawkins

Barry Hawkins — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:06:05 +0000

Hi Suresh,
You’re welcome! Yeah, I remember how happy I was to have those back myself.
Barry

By: Suresh Rajashekara

Suresh Rajashekara — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:21:51 +0000

Hi Barry,

Thanks, this really was useful for me. I missed the debian menus a lot.

Suresh

By: Ben Hanson

Ben Hanson — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:48:05 +0000

One final step for me: I had installed menu-xdg, but after a reboot there was still no Debian menu. All was well, however, after running dpkg-reconfigure menu and dpkg-reconfigure menu-xdg.

Ben

By: Barry Hawkins

Barry Hawkins — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:24:22 +0000

Yes, Bill Alombert pointed me to Bug #322517; this problem keeps occuring because GNOME still only suggests menu-xdg, even though nearly everyone expects this menu to always present. Note that KDE appropriately depends upon menu-xdg.