29 Jan
2020
29 Jan
'20
1:16 a.m.
On Tuesday 28 January 2020 19:40:03 E. Liddell wrote:
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:27:23 -0500
Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
> A fellow user suffered extreme visual impairment, which severely
> limits his ability to use his PC. At irregular intervals, I
> straighten out his problems, and do his release upgrades.
>
> Somehow in his desire to reduce clutter on Kicker by deleting unused
> objects he has managed to eliminate a large number of items from his
> main menu. Office is totally absent, even though the entirety of
> LibreOffice is installed. Likewise, Internet, Utilities and System
> are also missing. Is there some simple XDG or other way to
> regenerate the menu that doesn't eliminate menu customization or
> impact Kicker?
>
> <https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_desktop_guides/kde_de
>sktop_user_guide/kde-menu.html> suggests
>
> touch $KDEDIR /share/services/update_ksycoca
Meaning KDEDIR has not been defined and exported. The $ sign means get
it from the environment, env in a terminal.
I don't us it now for years, so I can't help.
> Substituting $TDEDIR produces no such file or
directory.
s/b TDEDIR=/opt/trinity, or is here.
# man ksycoca
No manual entry for ksycoca
# man xdgmenu
No manual entry for xdgmenu
# man update-menus
No manual entry for update-menus
$ ls -l .*xdg* *xdg*
ls: cannot access '.*xdg*': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '*xdg*': No such file or directory
:(
My system suggests that you may want "xdg-desktop-menu forceupdate"
(xdg-utils, has a man page on my system) or maybe "tdebuildsycoca"
(TDE, no man page).
kappfinder may also be able to help selectively stick applications
back onto the menu, although it would require some user intervention.
E. Liddell
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