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yhouse

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-07-11

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Failed to load the applications menu

Hello, after removing some programs from my manjaro using pamac, i tried to edit the order of my xfce4 menu using menulibre, but while saving every step i edit i get this error in a popup window: Failed to load the applications menu: Error on line 1 char 1: Document was empty or contained only whitespace.

when this happens, clicking on the menu doesn't let it open, so i have to remove the menu from the panel and add it again. i also tried to delete file xfce-applications.menu from /.config/menus/ but this didn't help.

also, this causes the menu not to open from right click on desktop > applications.

is it possible that a program i removed deleted some package needed to the menu? i just removed programs like music player, pidgin etc.

thanks for your help!

Last edited by yhouse (2016-08-18 15:30:57)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,014

Re: Failed to load the applications menu

The "garcon" package is required for the menus. There will be a system menu placed somewhere in /etc/xdg (may vary depending on distro but default is /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applcations.menu) and a user-based one in ~/.config/menus.

Make sure garcon is installed. If the problem persists, can you post back the contents of both the system and user xfce-applications.menu.

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