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Thread: HOWTO restore xfce4's menu

  1. #1
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    HOWTO restore xfce4's menu

    Broke xfce4 Menu
    Code:
    Settings -> Sessions_and_Startup_Settings
    Unchecked Display_chooser_on_login
    After doing that, the Xfce Menu did nothing when clicked on, and clicking the right mouse did not bring up the menu either.

    Almost gave up.

    HOWTO fix
    Code:
    cp /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml /home/[myusername]/.config/xfce4/desktop/
    Menu came back

    I am not sure why the menu broke or what else I might have done to cause it? I was just about to uninstall/reinstall all of xfce4 when it somehow occurred to me to copy the stock menu.xml from /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop to my home directory. Happily, that worked for me.

    ... Just found a new? way to break the xfce4 menu. If I use xfce4 menu editor and either close or save the menu, the result is a completely blank menu. This is with xfce4-menueditor 4.3.90.1.
    Last edited by lmo; January 4th, 2007 at 06:08 AM.

  2. #2
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    Re: HOWTO restore xfce4's menu

    I had this as well, thanks for posting this HOWTO.

    I also had a problem where the XFCE panel (top and bottom desktop bars for the new users) crashed, so I couldn't even get to the menu. I fixed this by running xfce4-panel & from a Terminal window that was already open.

    Apparently these problems happen when XFCE crashes - so backing up the contents of ~/.config is well worth it, using a command such as:

    tar czvf gui-config-backup.tar.gz .config/

    Run this command from a Terminal window when you've made some changes to your XFCE setup - then to restore over a broken config you just need to do:

    cd; tar xzvf gui-config-backup.tar.gz

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