Re: Gnome 2 menu items not appearing in menu

[Bjarke Buur Mortensen <rodaz diku dk>]

On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 11:36, Danilo S(egan wrote:
> Bjarke Buur Mortensen wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > Since installing garnome 0.17.1 at work an 0.18.0 at home I've been
> > unable to see any gnome 2 applications in the menu of the menu-panel (or
> > in 'applications:///' in nautilus for that matter). I only see the old
> > gnome 1 applications, red hat stuff etc.
> > 
> > So, for instance, 'preferences:///' show all the expected desktop
> > preferences but 'applications:///Preferences' does not.
> > 
> > How do I get my menu items back?
> > 
> > (running red hat 7.3)
> 
> Are you sure you're using Gnome2???

Yes, I'm sure. I get a beautiful Garnome login screen ;-)

> You can check this with, eg. trying ,,which gnome-session''. It should 
> point to your Garnome installation (default is, I believe ~/garnome/bin).

My installation is in /store/garnome, and has been all the time I've
been using garnome (since 0.8.0 I think). My PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc.
are correct. The only part of gnome2 that is not working is the menu.
(well, that is of course not the only thing, this is devel-software
after all, but the only major thing atm.)

> 
> It might be that you haven't set your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly.
> 
> Try inserting it in /etc/profile, $HOME/.profile or whatever suitable 
> for your run (if using GDM, XDM, KDM in the appropriate files). Use 
> something like
> export PATH=$HOME/garnome/bin:$PATH
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/garnome/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 
> This could be done better (and for csh use setenv instead of export), to 
> check for the empty variables, but what the heck... it should work this way.
> 
> > 
> > regards,
> > /Bjarke
> > 
> 
> To you too :),
> Danilo
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Bjarke Buur Mortensen <rodaz diku dk>