HOWTO: Crossover office 4.2 menus in Hoary

**Darrena** · April 13th, 2005

Many people have reported problems getting the Crossover office menu's to work in Hoary, others have had no problems at all.

I was one of the ones having the problem and here is my solution, note I have no idea what these permissions should be set to so changing them could be a bad thing!

It seems that the problem is that CXOffice can't write to $home/.config/menus, so change the permission to give everyone write access before installing. You can change it back afterwards to 755.

from a terminal:

Code:

cd $home
sudo chmod 777 .config/menus -R

Install CXOffice again.

To change the permissions back type (Or at least mine was this):

Code:

sudo chmod 755 .config/menus -R

**Technoviking** · April 13th, 2005

I had this problem with 4.1, but not with 4.2.

Mike

**kuleali** · April 13th, 2005

thank's, this helped

**23meg** · April 28th, 2005

this doesn't work for me; i get an "chmod: cannot access `.config/menus': No such file or directory" error when i type sudo chmod 777 .config/menus -R ...

**Paulus** · May 11th, 2005

run it from a normal terminal, though this didn't work for me either :/ the menu's have always seemed a bit dodgey, some changes only take effect after a log out>log in.