RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3
- From: John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>
- To: "gnome-shell-list gnome org" <gnome-shell-list gnome org>
- Subject: RE: No application or applet icons in gmome-shell-3.10.3
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 06:05:56 +0000
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:02 AM, John Frankish <j-frankish slb com> wrote:
I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling
the various components from source.
Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", I do not
get any application icons on the desktop nor applet icons in the
top panel.
I can use nautilus to navigate to /usr/local/share/applications
and launch various gnome apps by double-clicking on the *desktop
files, so things seem to be in order, but I cannot figure out why
there are no application icons on the desktop.
Note that I've enabled desktop icons using dconf-editor, but this
does not change anything - any trouble-shooting suggestions would
be welcome.
It might make it easier to troubleshoot if somebody could help me out with the following:
1. What application/script/etc does gnome-shell use to search for available applications?
2. What determines where gnome-shell searches for available applications?
3. What does gnome-shell search for - *desktop files, cache file from update-desktop-database, or?
In GNOME 3.10 and below, gnome-shell uses libgnome-menu to search for applications. Make sure your
gnome-menus components is properly installed and updated, and you have menus in /etc/xdg/menus/.
Additionally, make sure that your $XDG_MENU_PREFIX is set to "gnome-", since that's the name of the menu
files that gnome-menus installs. This should be set by gnome-session on startup.
Thanks - that fixed it :)
$XDG_MENU_PREFIX was not set (why wouldn't gnome-menus/gnome-shell assume "gnome-" as default until told
otherwise?)
I compiled everything to /usr/local so gnome-menus' menu file is in /usr/local/etc/xdg/menus - however, it
must be hardcoded somewhere because when I symlinked /etc/xdg -> /usr/local/etc/xdg everything started to
work as expected.
As per dconf-editor, org.gnome.shell.app-folder-categories has only ['Utilities', 'Sundry'] as default. Where
can I edit this to something more sensible without needing to use dconf-editor/gsettings?
Thanks again
John
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