Re: Gnome menu empty after installation

[Vincent Rubiolo <vincent rubiolo free fr>]

Hello Bernt,

I had the same problem at some point in time. Nothing changed by 
performing the instructions outlined in the FAQ/README (that guenther 
kindly reproduced below).

It was not until I built Gimp that things went  in order. I figure the 
package does something special (some sort of cache rebuild, etc) that 
puts the menus in order.

I would be nice to know what exactly is needed to have the correct menu 
entries.

HTH,

Vincent

Bernd Muent wrote:
> guenther schrieb:
>
> > > ... there are no apps listed on my freshly compiled garnome 2.10.1.
> > > What to do? How do I (re)generate the menus?
> >
> >
> >
> > XDG_DATA_DIRS=$GARNOME/share
> > XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$GARNOME/etc/xdg
> >
> > export XDG_DATA_DIRS XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
> >
> > $GARNOME/bin/update-desktop-database
> > $GARNOME/bin/update-mime-database $GARNOME/share/mime
> >
> > Run the above commands as the user who built GARNOME and set $GARNOME
> > before. Log in again.
>
>
> Unfortunately this does not change anything. $GARNOME is set to 
> "/opt/gnome".
> I builded garnome with the user root.
> When I start update-desktop-database with "-v" there are about 100 
> warnings like that:
> File '/opt/gnome/share/applications/xchat.desktop' lacks MimeType key
>
> In /opt/gnome/share/mime there are hundreds of mime types in .xml files.
>
> Any other idea? B.

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