Kmenuedit doesn't work

Richard W. Knight rick_knight at rlknight.com
Tue Oct 25 20:11:38 BST 2005


Gene Heskett wrote:

>On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:17, Richard W. Knight wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have two PCs running KDE-3.4 with Kubuntu-5.04. On one PC everything
>>works well, but on the other PC, I am unable to make changes to the KDE
>>menu. I can run kmenuedit from a konsole and everything seems to work,
>>but after closing kmenuedit and then clicking on K Menu, my changes do
>>not exist. No error message or any indication of a problem with
>>kmenuedit. I've tried changing kmenuedit to suid but that makes no
>>difference. I've compared the settings on the two PCs and I can't find
>>anything that can explain why I can't modify my menu on one of the PCs.
>>Can anyone offer a suggestion?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Rick Knight
>>    
>>
>
>That was the keyword I was looking for, kmenuedit.  And it does work
>here, thank you very much.  KDE3.3.0 here, on FC2 box.
>
>When you clicked on save as you exited, did it pop up a slider showing
>progress as it updated the menu's?  It did here.
>
>Also, I could not find a repair, eg a setup, in the /opt/openoffice.org2.0
>installation dir, so rather than update the menu item for that, I deleted
>it.
>
>  
>
Glad I was able to help you solve your problem.

Yes, I do get the progress bar when I save and/or close kmenuedit. There 
is no indication that anything is not working correctly.

Thanks,
Rick Knight

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