Menu entry in Whisker Menu are lost

Friedrich · 2019-04-05 15:40:23

Hi,

i have installed Xubuntu 18.04 and use the Whisker Menu to open applications. After the last start all menu entries are lost except the wine tools. when i click on the whisker menu i can choose favorits, last used applications, all installed applications and wine. i've made a screenshot to make what i mean. i changed nothing. when i open menu libre the menu entries are still there. also when i use the other (more windows like) application menu all menu entries are there (but in english and not in the selected language).

whats is wrong here?

The screenshot is uploaded here: https://ibb.co/TkdxHjm

ToZ · 2019-04-05 16:38:13

I've always found menu editors buggy. Perhaps you've hit one. What content do you have in ~/.config/menus and ~/.local/share/desktop-directories? You might want to move those files somewhere else temporarily to see if it fixes the issue. Note: you will lose and menu customizations that you've made.

Friedrich · 2019-04-05 16:56:05

I have not changed anything using the menu editor, i only checked the menu entries there.

in .config/menues there is only one subfolder applications-merged and there are some *.menu files from wine and an empty file called 'xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu'

In ~/.local/share/desktop-directories there are also some *.derectory files of applications installed with wine.

When i delete the files on both folders and restart nothing happens.

ToZ · 2019-04-05 17:30:34

Does the regular Applications menu or the desktop Applications menu show the proper content or the same as Whisker?

What folders exist under /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu and what are the contents of the /etc/xdg/menus directory?
Also:

env | grep -i xdg

...to see your XDG environment variables.

It looks like your menu configuration files were changed.

Friedrich · 2019-04-06 06:15:21

What do you mean with regular Application menu? Do you mean the other application menu that i can add to the panel where it pops up the application list when i move the mouse over a categorie? if so, here i have all applications. but the menu is in english and not in my language. but no applications are missing here. i also have all my applications on the desktop.

ls /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu
autostart  menus  orage  Thunar  xfce4  compton.conf

ls /etc/xdg/menus
gnome-applications.menu  lxde-applications.menu  xfce-applications.menu
kf5-applications.menu    lxqt-config.menu        xfce-settings-manager.menu

env | grep -i xdg
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce-
XDG_VTNR=7
XDG_SESSION_ID=c1
XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm-data/ich
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/xubuntu:/usr/share/xfce4:/home/ich/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop:/usr/share
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=xubuntu
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu:/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg

Friedrich · 2019-04-06 07:49:57

Problem is solved after uninstalling flatpak.

are there any known problem with flatpak?

Last edited by Friedrich (2019-04-06 07:50:11)

ToZ · 2019-04-06 10:24:20

Friedrich wrote:

are there any known problem with flatpak?

Yes, if you ran it as root.

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#1 2019-04-05 15:40:23

Menu entry in Whisker Menu are lost

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Re: Menu entry in Whisker Menu are lost

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#5 2019-04-06 06:15:21

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#6 2019-04-06 07:49:57

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#7 2019-04-06 10:24:20

Re: Menu entry in Whisker Menu are lost

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