All launchers disappeared except the ones I tried to hide

[GD]

I have been working on setup of a Raspberry Pi with latest version of Raspbian. The state of the "Other" category is a bit of a mess (why they disable it), but to make it possible to find some stuff I decided to try MenuLibre.

On initial launch, it showed all my launchers. I went through the list, going expanding some categories, and choosing the "hide" option to "ON" for particular stuff no one is going to use in my classroom. Each time I clicked a new one, I was prompted to save. When I got to about the third one of these, I noticed that the entire start menu was blank, except the category with the three things I had hidden. I tried closing and reopening Menulibre, but this time it failed to populate with any of the launchers except the 3 that had been modified.

If I go to /usr/share/applications etc. the launchers are still there.

Logged out of the desktop and restarted startx. Now there was just a + to add some launchers where there had been the standard shortcuts. Clicking it and I can select all the launchers, but I would have to completely rebuild the entire menu structure by hand.

This is a disaster. Short of reimaging the machine - the Raspian way - after all it's just a new SD card - what can I do to fix this? What is menulibre modifying to trick the desktop into not scanning the normal places for desktop launchers? And how to revert that config file?

[852159 (vilassardemar1994)]

You can reset the menu by deleting the configuration file of this, although the error causes menulibre

[Abdullah Ramazanoglu (ar018)]

I have encountered the same (or similar) problem here.

I'm running Debian Stretch, installed Xfce and LxQt, but only use LxQt desktop. At the first run, menulibre was showing all the categories and launchers, and they were all visible and accessible. I deleted some local launchers in ~/.local/share/applications (which had been accidentally created by Midori -> Bookmarks -> Create a launcher) and then I exit menulibre program. When I rerun it, all the categories were there, but they were empty - no launchers at all. My actual main menu is fine, but it's no more represented in menulibre (except the empty categories). At that point, I noticed that menulibre status line was showing "/usr/share/desktop-directories/lxde-*.directory" for actual location of -empty- menu categories. I don't know if it's of importance.

Environment: Debian Stretch, LxQt 0.11.1, menulibre 2.0.7