<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi "wwp", thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, the installed start menu entries do not show up even after a restart of the computer. If I install a desktop entry on the desktop (and not in the start menu) using xdg-desktop-icon install file.desktop then the installed entry is shown on the desktop immediately. Do you have an idea what the problem could be? --Stefan wwp wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20090520174736.34a336b9@monolith" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hello Stefan, On Wed, 20 May 2009 16:53:13 +0200 Stefan Wachter <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Stefan.Wachter@gmx.de"><Stefan.Wachter@gmx.de></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi all, I have one .directory and a couple of .desktop files. I tried to install these using xdg-desktop-menu install file1.directory file2.desktop file3.desktop file4.desktop file5.desktop The command returns with no error but the entries do not show up in the start menu. Then I tried to install them withouth the directory using xdg-desktop-menu install file2.desktop file3.desktop file4.desktop file5.desktop Again, the command returned without error, but no entries showed up. After I had set the XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL to 999 I repeated the above command and saw the command did write into various locations with no sign of an error (see log below). I use OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE 4.1.3. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong? Thanks for your attention, </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I wouldn't expect this with a SuSe 11, but I noticed that according to the distro and the desktop (Gnome, KDE, etc.), you have to logout/login your graphical (X11/X.org) sessions to see new additions to the desktop or menu. Regards, </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">--Stefan update_submenu Install locations for *.menu file: xdg_user_dir: /home/swachter/.config/menus/applications-merged xdg_global_dir: /applications-merged kde_user_dir: kde_global_dir: gnome_user_dir: gnome_global_dir: Install locations for *.directory files: xdg_user_dir: /home/swachter/.local/share/desktop-directories xdg_global_dir: kde_user_dir: kde_global_dir: gnome_user_dir: gnome_global_dir: Install locations for *.desktop files: xdg_user_dir: /home/swachter/.local/share/applications xdg_global_dir: kde_user_dir: /home/swachter/.kde/share/applnk kde_global_dir: gnome_user_dir: /home/swachter/.gnome/apps gnome_global_dir: install polfha-starten.desktop in /home/swachter/.local/share/applications /home/swachter/.kde/share/applnk /home/swachter/. gnome/apps make_lazy_default /home/swachter/.local/share/applications/polfha-starten.desktop _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Portland@lists.freedesktop.org">Portland@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/portland">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/portland</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Portland@lists.freedesktop.org">Portland@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/portland">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/portland</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>