After using alacarte to add a new menu entry, both menulibre and alacarte do not run. menulibre draws a window outline and disappears. alacarte simply thrashes the hard drive and nothing appears. Removing /home/.config/menus/ allows them to work again.
I was not sure whether to attach the alacarte or menulibre system information, sorry if I have got the wrong one, I can forward the alacarte if requested. I have saved a copy of the menus folder which I can forward as well.
During all this time the Applications Menu and Whiskers menu worked fine in the Panel and retained their menu entries and structure.
I maybe at fault in how I used the Menu editing programs (my stats will show I have only had the system up and running for 4 weeks, status==newbie) or it maybe a bug. Since the first time the menu editing crashed, and I recovered it, I have successfully added extra items to the menu, but I have also had it crash twice since then as well. Each time deleting that .config/menus/ folder got it working again and stable as long as I was modest in what I attempted.
The last time it crashed I was trying to add an Icon to a menu entry that did not get an Icon when it was installed.
/home/rob/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu is quite short about 400+bytes and when it crashes there is a file about 16kbytes long (this file contains a whole list what looks like every possible menu item, visible and invisible, in the machine, the short file version only contains information relevant to the last icon created).
After using alacarte to add a new menu entry, both menulibre and alacarte do not run. menulibre draws a window outline and disappears. alacarte simply thrashes the hard drive and nothing appears. Removing /home/. config/ menus/ allows them to work again.
I was not sure whether to attach the alacarte or menulibre system information, sorry if I have got the wrong one, I can forward the alacarte if requested. I have saved a copy of the menus folder which I can forward as well.
During all this time the Applications Menu and Whiskers menu worked fine in the Panel and retained their menu entries and structure.
I maybe at fault in how I used the Menu editing programs (my stats will show I have only had the system up and running for 4 weeks, status==newbie) or it maybe a bug. Since the first time the menu editing crashed, and I recovered it, I have successfully added extra items to the menu, but I have also had it crash twice since then as well. Each time deleting that .config/menus/ folder got it working again and stable as long as I was modest in what I attempted.
The last time it crashed I was trying to add an Icon to a menu entry that did not get an Icon when it was installed.
/home/rob/ .config/ menus/xfce- applications. menu is quite short about 400+bytes and when it crashes there is a file about 16kbytes long (this file contains a whole list what looks like every possible menu item, visible and invisible, in the machine, the short file version only contains information relevant to the last icon created).
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
rob@DesktopUbun tu:~$ apt-cache policy menulibre mirror. as24220. net/pub/ ubuntu- archive/ trusty/universe i386 Packages dpkg/status
menulibre:
Installed: 2.0.3-1
Candidate: 2.0.3-1
Version table:
*** 2.0.3-1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
rob@DesktopUbun tu:~$ apt-cache policy alacarte mirror. as24220. net/pub/ ubuntu- archive/ trusty/universe i386 Packages dpkg/status
alacarte:
Installed: 3.10.0-1ubuntu2
Candidate: 3.10.0-1ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 3.10.0-1ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
ProblemType: Bug ature: Ubuntu 3.13.0- 24.47-generic 3.13.9 ture: all
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: menulibre 2.0.3-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue May 13 11:06:37 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (24 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: menulibre
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-18 (24 days ago)