xdg-desktop-menu install - fails to install the menu

[kornelix]

Binary package hint: xdg-utils

When run as root user (via sudo) xdg-desktop-menu install is supposed to install the menu for all users, but it installs the menu only for user root. Other users do not see the menu. Adding the option "--mode system" makes no difference. There are no error messages and the returned status ($?) is 0. This happens with Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 beta.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-1ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 11 09:12:59 2011
Dependencies:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xdg-utils

[Andrey Utkin (andrey-krieger-utkin)]

Menu entries appear after reboot.

[kornelix (kornelix)]

No they did not at the time, but this problem seems to be gone now.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Andrey Utkin <email address hidden>wrote:

> Menu entries appear after reboot.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/757218
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> Title:
> xdg-desktop-menu install - fails to install the menu
>
> Status in “xdg-utils” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xdg-utils
>
> When run as root user (via sudo) xdg-desktop-menu install is supposed
> to install the menu for all users, but it installs the menu only for
> user root. Other users do not see the menu. Adding the option "--mode
> system" makes no difference. There are no error messages and the
> returned status ($?) is 0. This happens with Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04
> beta.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-1ubuntu0.2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon Apr 11 09:12:59 2011
> Dependencies:
>
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64
> (20101007)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: xdg-utils
>
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[Andrey Utkin (andrey-krieger-utkin)]

At my case menus appear also after logout & login back.
Found a workaround: after 'xdg-desktop-menu' action, invoke 'killall gnome-panel', menu gets refreshed.
Interesting that this explicit refresh is required on amd64 arch only.