Re: Again: Created menu items only visible for root

[Frank Hrebabetzky <frankh terra com br>]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2003, Simon Wong wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 00:59, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote:
> > them into place (applications-all-users:///) with Nautilus as root. Now
> > these new items work when I start X as root, but they are invisible for a
> > normal user. Setting the execute bit of the .desktop file for 'rest of the
> > world' didn't help.
>
> I'm assuming you have the read bit set for world as well...
>
> You also need to ensure that the directories from root (/) down to there
> as also traversable (execute bit set) fro world as well.

All the .desktop files are in the same directory
(/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users) and have the same
access bits. Some were created by duplication of existing ones with
nautilus and have been moved to this directory. Those are visible for
everybody. Others were created with a text editor and have been moved to
the same directory.  Those are visible only for root. An example of the
latter is:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=dillo
Terminal=false
Type=Application
TryExec=
X-GNOME-DocPath=
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-html.png
Name=Dillo
GenericName=
Comment=Html browser

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