Xfce Forum

panzer

Member

Registered: 2011-10-02

Posts: 1

When I right click on the desktop, "Terminal" is not showing...

Hi,

My ~/.config/menu/xfce-applications.menu looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE Menu
  PUBLIC '-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN'
  'http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd'>
<Menu>
	<Name>Xfce</Name>
	<DefaultAppDirs/>
	<DefaultDirectoryDirs/>
	<DefaultMergeDirs/>
	<Include>
		<Category>X-Xfce-Toplevel</Category>
	</Include>
	<Layout>
		<Filename>xfrun4.desktop</Filename>
		<Filename>xfce4-run.desktop</Filename>
		<Separator/>
		<Filename>exo-terminal-emulator.desktop</Filename>
		<Filename>exo-file-manager.desktop</Filename>
		<Filename>exo-mail-reader.desktop</Filename>
		<Filename>exo-web-browser.desktop</Filename>
		<Separator/>
		<Menuname>Settings</Menuname>
		<Separator/>
		<Merge type="all"/>
		<Separator/>
		<Filename>xfhelp4.desktop</Filename>
		<Filename>xfce4-about.desktop</Filename>
		<Filename>xfce4-session-logout.desktop</Filename>
	</Layout>
	<Menu>
		<Name>Settings</Name>
		<Directory>xfce-settings.directory</Directory>
		<Include>
			<Category>Settings</Category>
		</Include>
		<Layout>
			<Filename>xfce-settings-manager.desktop</Filename>
			<Separator/>
			<Merge type="all"/>
		</Layout>
		<Menu>
			<Name>Screensavers</Name>
			<Directory>xfce-screensavers.directory</Directory>
			<Include>
				<Category>Screensaver</Category>
			</Include>
		</Menu>
	</Menu>
	<Menu>
		<Name>Accessories</Name>
		<Directory>xfce-accessories.directory</Directory>
		<Include>
			<Or>
				<Category>Accessibility</Category>
				<Category>Core</Category>
				<Category>Legacy</Category>
				<Category>Utility</Category>
			</Or>
		</Include>
		<Exclude>
			<Or>
				<Filename>exo-file-manager.desktop</Filename>
				<Filename>exo-terminal-emulator.desktop</Filename>
				<Filename>xfce4-about.desktop</Filename>
				<Filename>xfrun4.desktop</Filename>
			</Or>
		</Exclude>
		<AppDir>/home/eric/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
		<Include>
			<Filename>xfce4-terminal.desktop</Filename>
		</Include>
	</Menu>
	<Menu>
		<Name>Development</Name>
		<Directory>xfce-development.directory</Directory>
		<Include>
			<Category>Development</Category>
		</Include>
	</Menu>
	<Menu>
		<Name>Education</Name>
		<Directory>xfce-education.directory</Directory>
		<Include>
			<Category>Education</Category>
		</Include>
	</Menu>
	<Menu>
		<Name>Games</Name>
		<Directory>xfce-games.directory</Directory>
		<Include>
			<Category>Game</Category>
		</Include>
	</Menu>
	<Menu>
		<Name>Graphics</Name>
		<Directory>xfce-graphics.directory</Directory>
		<Include>
			<Category>Graphics</Category>
		</Include>
	</Menu>
	<Menu>
		<Name>Multimedia</Name>
		<Directory>xfce-multimedia.directory</Directory>
		<Include>
			<Category>Audio</Category>
			<Category>Video</Category>
			<Category>AudioVideo</Category>
		</Include>
	</Menu>
	<Menu>
		<Name>Network</Name>
		<Directory>xfce-network.directory</Directory>
		<Include>
			<Category>Network</Category>
		</Include>
		<Exclude>
			<Or>
				<Filename>exo-mail-reader.desktop</Filename>
				<Filename>exo-web-browser.desktop</Filename>
			</Or>
		</Exclude>
	</Menu>
	<Menu>
		<Name>Office</Name>
		<Directory>xfce-office.directory</Directory>
		<Include>
			<Category>Office</Category>
		</Include>
	</Menu>
	<Menu>
		<Name>System</Name>
		<Directory>xfce-system.directory</Directory>
		<Include>
			<Or>
				<Category>Emulator</Category>
				<Category>System</Category>
			</Or>
		</Include>
		<Exclude>
			<Or>
				<Filename>xfce4-session-logout.desktop</Filename>
			</Or>
		</Exclude>
		<AppDir>/home/eric/.local/share/applications</AppDir>
		<Exclude>
			<Filename>debian-uxterm.desktop</Filename>
		</Exclude>
		<Include>
			<Filename>xfce4-terminal.desktop</Filename>
		</Include>
		<Include>
			<Filename>debian-xterm.desktop</Filename>
		</Include>
	</Menu>
	<Menu>
		<Name>Other</Name>
		<Directory>xfce-other.directory</Directory>
		<OnlyUnallocated/>
		<Include>
			<All/>
		</Include>
	</Menu>
</Menu>

When I right click on the desktop, everything is there, but I don't see "terminal-emulator".
Any idea what is wrong?
Thanks

RobtWB

Member

Registered: 2011-09-29

Posts: 6

Re: When I right click on the desktop, "Terminal" is not showing...

Hi panzer, my first guess would be that the 'terminal-emulator.desktop' file doesn't exist, isn't where it's supposed to be, or is corrupted. I'd check there first. In my distro (openSuSE 11.4) the '.desktop' files are in '/usr/share/applications', but there's others in places like '~/.local/share', '/usr/share/xfce4/helpers'. In my setup the file is in '/usr/share/xfce4/helpers' and is just called 'Terminal.desktop', which may also be your problem, the file is there but the menu has the name wrong. I'd suggest trying to find the file referenced in your menu, and if it doesn't exist but there's another like 'Terminal.desktop', just change the line in the menu file to that.
Hope this helps.