[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#617470: Bug#617470: xfdesktop4: Unable to load menu: File "menus/applications.menu" not found

Lionel Le Folgoc mrpouit at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 06:47:00 UTC 2011


Hi,

Thanks for your bug report.

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 01:14:53AM -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
> Package: xfdesktop4
> Version: 4.8.1-1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Testing Xfce 4.8 in experimental, I discovered that the menus provided
> by xfdesktop4 do not work:  neither right-clicking on the desktop, nor
> adding the Applications Menu button to a panel will work.  Attempts to
> use menus result in an error message
> 
>     Unable to load menu: File "menus/applications.menu" not found
> 
> either in .xsession-errors (right-click) or in a visible dialog window
> (Applications Menu button).
> 
> […]
> 
> ii  xfce4-utils                  4.8.1-1     Various tools for Xfce
> 

How do you start your Xfce session?

You should have the following env var set:
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce-

And garcon looks for $d/menus/${XDG_MENU_PREFIX}applications.menu
(with $d in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, or /etc if empty).

This is usually set by /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc, spawned by
/usr/bin/startxfce4 (both from xfce4-utils >= 4.8.0).

Best,
Lionel

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