I've upgraded my glabels application (label making software that works really well, btw) on my FC2 machine. There seem to be some empty menu items in my Gnome menu as a result, and I'd like to remove them. Here is where they are located:
Redhat -> Applications -> (small grey box appears) Redhat -> System Settings -> Applications -> (small grey box appears) Redhat -> Preferences -> Applications -> (small grey box appears)
Can someone help me with how to properly go about removing these menu items? I know it's minor, in the big scheme of things, but it's an annoyance to see empty menu items on an otherwise neat desktop. ;-)
I've tried looking in /usr/share/applications, and see my other menu items, such as:
bme.desktop gnome-gnotski.desktop mozilla.desktop redhat-qmkbootdisk.desktop DataManager.desktop gnome-gnucash.desktop mozilla-mail.desktop redhat-rhn-up2date-config.desktop
etc.
but don't see anything with "Applications" on it in this directory.
Thanks, Clint
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 12:08:57 -0400, Clint Harshaw clint@penguinsolutions.org wrote:
I've upgraded my glabels application (label making software that works really well, btw) on my FC2 machine. There seem to be some empty menu items in my Gnome menu as a result, and I'd like to remove them. Here is where they are located:
Redhat -> Applications -> (small grey box appears) Redhat -> System Settings -> Applications -> (small grey box appears) Redhat -> Preferences -> Applications -> (small grey box appears)
Can someone help me with how to properly go about removing these menu items? I know it's minor, in the big scheme of things, but it's an annoyance to see empty menu items on an otherwise neat desktop. ;-)
I've tried looking in /usr/share/applications, and see my other menu items, such as:
bme.desktop gnome-gnotski.desktop mozilla.desktop redhat-qmkbootdisk.desktop DataManager.desktop gnome-gnucash.desktop mozilla-mail.desktop redhat-rhn-up2date-config.desktop
etc.
but don't see anything with "Applications" on it in this directory.
Sounds very familiar when I installed Opera rpm. Try and check in /etc/X11/applnk/ and see if there's anything there. If there is stuff in there that seems to look like the extra menu items you're seeing, maybe try and move them out first, then run killlall gnome-panel to reload it. And see if the menus are still there. If not, then I'm of no help at all. =)
dex
On Sunday 05 September 2004 18:09, Dexter Ang wrote:
Sounds very familiar when I installed Opera rpm. Try and check in /etc/X11/applnk/ and see if there's anything there. If there is stuff in there that seems to look like the extra menu items you're seeing, maybe try and move them out first, then run killlall gnome-panel to reload it. And see if the menus are still there. If not, then I'm of no help at all. =)
dex
I don't know if that helps the original poster, but it sure helps me. It's been bugging me for ages about having two Opera icons.
Cheers
J
Jo O'Connor wrote:
On Sunday 05 September 2004 18:09, Dexter Ang wrote:
Sounds very familiar when I installed Opera rpm. Try and check in /etc/X11/applnk/ and see if there's anything there. If there is stuff in there that seems to look like the extra menu items you're seeing, maybe try and move them out first, then run killlall gnome-panel to reload it. And see if the menus are still there. If not, then I'm of no help at all. =)
dex
I don't know if that helps the original poster, but it sure helps me. It's been bugging me for ages about having two Opera icons.
Cheers
J
I haven't got anything in my /etc/X11/applnk:
[charshaw@simba applnk]$ pwd /etc/X11/applnk [charshaw@simba applnk]$ ls -a . .. [charshaw@simba applnk]$
But keep those ideas coming -- I'm eager to fix this thing!
Clint
On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 12:08 -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote:
I've upgraded my glabels application (label making software that works really well, btw) on my FC2 machine. There seem to be some empty menu items in my Gnome menu as a result, and I'd like to remove them. Here is where they are located:
Redhat -> Applications -> (small grey box appears) Redhat -> System Settings -> Applications -> (small grey box appears) Redhat -> Preferences -> Applications -> (small grey box appears)
Can someone help me with how to properly go about removing these menu items? I know it's minor, in the big scheme of things, but it's an annoyance to see empty menu items on an otherwise neat desktop. ;-)
I've tried looking in /usr/share/applications, and see my other menu items, such as:
bme.desktop gnome-gnotski.desktop mozilla.desktop redhat-qmkbootdisk.desktop DataManager.desktop gnome-gnucash.desktop mozilla-mail.desktop redhat-rhn-up2date-config.desktop
etc.
but don't see anything with "Applications" on it in this directory.
Try looking in ~/config/menus. The application.desktop is there and it will tell you the directories that are merged into the menu (/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu) on my system. probably similar on yours.
HTH
Scott
Clint Harshaw wrote:
I've upgraded my glabels application (label making software that works really well, btw) on my FC2 machine. There seem to be some empty menu items in my Gnome menu as a result, and I'd like to remove them. Here is where they are located:
Redhat -> Applications -> (small grey box appears) Redhat -> System Settings -> Applications -> (small grey box appears) Redhat -> Preferences -> Applications -> (small grey box appears)
It seems to have fixed itself -- perhaps the reboot with the old glabels removed and the new one installed is what did the trick??
Clint
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 18:49 -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote:
Clint Harshaw wrote:
I've upgraded my glabels application (label making software that works really well, btw) on my FC2 machine. There seem to be some empty menu items in my Gnome menu as a result, and I'd like to remove them. Here is where they are located:
Redhat -> Applications -> (small grey box appears) Redhat -> System Settings -> Applications -> (small grey box appears) Redhat -> Preferences -> Applications -> (small grey box appears)
It seems to have fixed itself -- perhaps the reboot with the old glabels removed and the new one installed is what did the trick??
Clint
I've seen similar things, like items not showing up in menus until after a reboot (I suppose, that if i'd known, restart of X, or maybe Metacity might've done it)
The menu system is one thing that really bothers me in Gnome and KDE (of course it's even worse in the others, but I'm barely familiar with them). Seems to me that having XML files all over the place is going to get real cumbersome (like it ain't already!). Glad your problem is solved though.
Scott
Hi
The menu system is one thing that really bothers me in Gnome and KDE(of course it's even worse in the others, but I'm barely familiar with them). Seems to me that having XML files all over the place is going to get real cumbersome (like it ain't already!). Glad your problem is solved though.
freedesktop.org has a shared mime system + common .desktop files which might get better with gnome 2.8 scheduled for inclusion in fc3. not sure what you dont like about it thou
regards Rahul Sundaram
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