Settings Manager is missing most entries

toolforger · 2015-08-23 10:45:51

I'm unexpectedly getting a mostly empty Settings Manager screen, with many applications absent that used to be there (Software&Updates, Users and Groups, for example).
Last thing I remember doing was going from nvidia drivers to nouveau, which seems unrelated.
(Some other things changed as well: with nouveau, it suddenly required a login screen, which reverted when going back to nvidia, and desktop fonts are suddenly double their former size, which did not revert - everything rather fishy, insights into why that might have happened are welcome but my primary focus is is getting xfce4-settings-manager back).

What seems to have happened is that the X-XFCE-Xxx category settings got clobbered.
How might that have happened?
What's the best way to restore them? (apt-get purge && apt-get install is a viable option, I never changed anything about these apps, though I did change some settings in desktop color and installed some themes that I eventually didn't use anyway).

For reference, here's the category in which Settings Manager displays each application, if at all:

About Me (/usr/bin/mugshot): Not shown
Accessibility (xfce4-accessibility-settings): System
Additional Drivers (/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk --open-tab=4): Not shown
Appearance (xfce4-appearance-settings): Personal
Bluetooth Manager (blueman-manager): Not shown
Desktop (xfdesktop-settings): Personal
Display (xfce4-display-settings): Hardware
File Manager (thunar-settings): Personal
Keyboard (xfce4-keyboard-settings): Hardware
Language Support (/usr/bin/gnome-language-selector): Not shown
LightDM GTK+ Greeter settings (lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings-pkexec): Accessibility
Light Locker Settings (/usr/bin/light-locker-settings): Not shown
Menu Editor (/usr/bin/menulibre): Not shown
MIME Type Editor (xfce4-mime-settings): Accessibility
Mouse and Touchpad (xfce4-mouse-settings): Hardware
Network (network-admin): Not shown
Network Connections (nm-connection-editor): Not shown
Notifications (xfce4-notifyd-config): Personal
NVIDIA X Server Settings (/usr/bin/nvidia-settings): Not shown
Onboard Settings (onboard-settings): Not shown
OpenJDK Java 7 Policy Tool (/usr/bin/policytool): Not shown
Orage preferences (orage -p): Not shown
Panel (xfce4-panel --preferences): Panel
Power Manager (xfce4-power-manager-settings): Hardware
Preferred Applications (exo-preferred-applications): Personal
Printers (system-config-printer): Not shown
Removable Drives and Media (thunar-volman-settings): Hardware
Screensavers (no program associated): Not shown
Sessions and Startup (xfce4-session-settings): Accessibility
Settings Editor (xfce4-settings-editor): Other
Shared Folders (hidden from whisker menu, shares-admin): Not shown
Software Updater (/usr/bin/update-manager): Not shown
Software & Updates (software-properties-gtk): Not shown
Theme Configuration (gtk-theme-config): Personal
Time and Date (time-admin): Not shown
Ubuntu Software Center (/usr/bin/software-center %u): Not shown
Users and Groups (users-admin): Not shown
Window Manager (xfwm4-settings): Personal
Window Manager Tweaks (xfwm4-tweaks-settings): Personal
Workspaces (xfwm4-workspace-settings): Personal

ToZ · 2015-08-23 15:47:50

Hello and welcome.

All of the "not shown" items are actually items added to the Settings Manager by U/Xubuntu (not part of upstream Xfce). U/Xubuntu has its own configuration files to make this happen. Assuming it is Xubuntu that you are using, these configuration files are part of the xubuntu-default-settings package. Ensure that it is installed.

Also have a look at ~/.config/menus. Any existing xfce-applications.menu or xfce-settings-manager.menu files will overwrite the default ones. If an xfce4-settings-manager.menu file exists here, try re-naming it so it is not processed and the default xfce-settings-manager.menu file is used instead.

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