cant make new items in main menu

[The Cog]

Yes - it's ugly, but it works a treat.
Working but ugly is far better than pretty but useless.

[vasa1]

Yes - it's ugly, but it works a treat.
Working but ugly is far better than pretty but useless.

It makes sense if Java is used for other things as well but installing Java just to edit menus? I wonder what happened to Menu Libre. That worked pretty well without needing Java.

[Bucky Ball]

Java? Huh? So you're saying lxmed uses Java? I wouldn't know. Like I say, don't even remember installing it.

[vasa1]

Java? Huh? So you're saying lxmed uses Java? I wouldn't know. Like I say, don't even remember installing it.

That's what it says here:

How to install lxmed?

Make sure you have java installed. Then follow these steps:

To install lxmed, first download a .tar.gz file.
Unpack archive in your home or desktop folder.
In terminal, enter the lxmed folder and type chmod +x install.sh to make install script executable.
Install lxmed by typing sudo ./install.sh
Go to main menu -> Preferences -> Main Menu Editor

Source: http://lxmed.sourceforge.net/help.html

Since I don't need Java and manage most of my apps with keyboard shortcuts, I'm not too particular about menus.

[Bucky Ball]

Since I don't need Java and manage most of my apps with keyboard shortcuts, I'm not too particular about menus.

I only use Java for Libreoffice functions and use shortcut keys for everything. Blank desktop, no 'clickable' icons for anything. I really don't remember doing any of that to install, or even installing lxmed. I've never even used it or been aware it was there until looking into finding a fix for this thread. Truly weird ...

[The Cog]

I wonder what happened to Menu Libre.

Hmm. I had to google for that one. It wasn't easy to install. These commands did it:

sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gtksource-3.0  libgtksourceview-3.0-1 libgtksourceview-3.0-common python-distutils-extra
tar xzf menulibre_13.0.4.17.tar.gz
cd trunk
sudo python setup.py install

Nice. It seems to work pretty well.
I cannot for the live of me make it appear in both the settings "control panel" and the pull-down menu though. Is there some trick I'm missing?

[vasa1]

Hmm. I had to google for that one. It wasn't easy to install. These commands did it:

sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gtksource-3.0  libgtksourceview-3.0-1 libgtksourceview-3.0-common python-distutils-extra
tar xzf menulibre_13.0.4.17.tar.gz
cd trunk
sudo python setup.py install

Nice. It seems to work pretty well.
I cannot for the live of me make it appear in both the settings "control panel" and the pull-down menu though. Is there some trick I'm missing?

Does this work on 13.10? I looked at the Launchpad page and didn't see mention of it being available for 13.10

[vasa1]

@The Cog, if you don't mind could you give more details on how you installed Menu Libre in a new thread? I don't get the cd trunk part and why you're using sudo.

[The Cog]

Barely worth a new thread.
I forgot, you also need to install python-distutils-extra package. <Slaps head>
menulibre_13.04.17.tar.gz (from sourceforge) un-tars and creates a folder called trunk. All the stuff is in that folder.
I cd into that folder and run the install.py script in there.
The install script tries to put things in /opt, /usr/bin and so on, so you need sudo.

I got an error while running install,

Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/menulibre-13.04.17.egg-info
("ERROR: Can't rename", '/usr/local/share/applications/menulibre.desktop', ':', OSError(17, 'File exists'))

but menulibre did seem to work afterwards. It shows up in the settings manager control panel or can be run from command line.

P.S. While editing my install commands, I accidentally edited your quote of my commands instead. Doh! Hope you don't mind. They match again now.

[payam30]

Anyone that fixed the problem? I still cannt make categories and items in main menu!
Please don't make any offtopics. This is about Xfce and not Lxde and Java!
thanks