Re: Again: Created menu items only visible for root
- From: Mike <mike redtux demon co uk>
- To: Gnome List <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Again: Created menu items only visible for root
- Date: Wed Aug 27 21:05:05 2003
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 01:20, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2003, Simon Wong wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 00:59, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote:
> > > them into place (applications-all-users:///) with Nautilus as root. Now
> > > these new items work when I start X as root, but they are invisible for a
> > > normal user. Setting the execute bit of the .desktop file for 'rest of the
> > > world' didn't help.
> >
> > I'm assuming you have the read bit set for world as well...
> >
> > You also need to ensure that the directories from root (/) down to there
> > as also traversable (execute bit set) fro world as well.
>
> All the .desktop files are in the same directory
> (/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users)
shouldn't they be in /usr/share/applications (or
where/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users defines the
desktop directory)?
> and have the same
> access bits. Some were created by duplication of existing ones with
> nautilus and have been moved to this directory. Those are visible for
> everybody. Others were created with a text editor and have been moved to
> the same directory. Those are visible only for root. An example of the
> latter is:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Exec=dillo
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> TryExec=
> X-GNOME-DocPath=
> Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-html.png
> Name=Dillo
> GenericName=
> Comment=Html browser
>
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