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greengeek · Last edited by greengeek on Mon 09 Mar 2015, 04:30; edited 1 time in total

I have added a programme (xvkbd) into my Slacko 5.6 derivative (via a manual remaster) and the pet I used contains a .desktop file which in theory should allow xvkbd to appear in the 'utility' menu.

However, after I reboot I do not initially see xvkbd in the utility menu. I can start xvkbd from the terminal so I know it works fine. I can see the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications so I don't understand why this was not reflected correctly during the boot process.

What I can do to get past this is after booting I can use a terminal to issue 'fixmenus' and 'jwm -restart' commands and then I do see xvkbd appear correctly in the utility menu. As a trial I have then remastered again and added a script into /root/Startup as follows:

musher0 · Posted: Sat 28 Feb 2015, 16:48 Post subject:

Hi, greengeek.

It's a bug, I suppose. I stopped complaining about it. It's a "fact of Puppy
life", to be diplomatic about it.

If you really want to update the jwm menu, only trust the console! Very Happy

I made myself a script similar to yours, and it fails sometimes. Depends
on the kind of breakfast jwm had... Also, it prefers Costa-Rican, not
Columbian, coffee! Fickle animal, this jwm...

Switch to pekwm or icewm !!! Smile

BFN.

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11331

hmm theres a big hairy thread all about jwm and its love of menu standards... its simply does not handle desktop file at all...a hacky script does and that hacky script is usually run by installers but if you took a route that does not then it does not ...

if you follow me...
worry not if you don't Smile

mike

LazY Puppy · Joined: 21 Nov 2014 Posts: 2007 Location: Germany

jwm -restart is not really needed.

jwm -reload will do it after the fixmenus.

No jwm will flicker when using jwm -reload.

By the way: you can put this into the fixmenus script!

LazY Puppy · Joined: 21 Nov 2014 Posts: 2007 Location: Germany

A second note:

When doing a manual remaster new added Programs won't appear in the menu generally, since /root/.jwmrc is not updated. You can update this by doing a fixmenus with a changed root, like:

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2379 Location: Queensland

You could try adding to the bottom of the fixmenus script

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11331

touch /root/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml

for xfce when sfs modules are loaded..... xfce4 like other desktop managers usually rescans applications at boot anyway so avoiding all of this script jiggery pokery

touching the applications folder does seem neater though and would work for multiuser...one for me to remember Smile

mike

greengeek · Posted: Sun 01 Mar 2015, 14:09 Post subject:

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2379 Location: Queensland

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11331

dont seem to have any icon caches created apart from this odd one
/usr/share/pixmaps/hicolor/icon-theme.cache 23k
...I assume xfce4 is not needing them or is this a lost but working child?

mike