Whisker menu - can't modify menu aplications

Submitted by tutur

Assigned to Graeme Gott @gottcode

Link to original bug (#12284)

Description

in Whisker menu 1.5.1 and in Archlinux based distro [Manjaro/Antergos] can't modify menu apps no more. In Antergos the menu is not accesable, in Manjaro you can access the menu but when you try to do something Whisker goes down.

Graeme Gott @gottcode said:

What do you mean by "can't modify menu apps"? You could never directly modify the items in Whisker Menu; it only launches a menu editor. Do you mean your menu editor is not launching? Or do you mean it is not detecting changes when you make them in your menu editor?

I set up test installs of both Antergos and Manjaro and Whisker Menu works fine for me and does not crash. It also functions correctly in my regular Arch Linux install. I'm not sure why it is crashing for you. Would you build a copy of the menu and run the panel in debug mode?

vladimir said:

(In reply to Graeme Gott from comment 1)

What do you mean by "can't modify menu apps"? You could never directly modify the items in Whisker Menu; it only launches a menu editor. Do you mean your menu editor is not launching? Or do you mean it is not detecting changes when you make them in your menu editor?

I set up test installs of both Antergos and Manjaro and Whisker Menu works fine for me and does not crash. It also functions correctly in my regular Arch Linux install. I'm not sure why it is crashing for you. Would you build a copy of the menu and run the panel in debug mode?

if you change the location of applications in the whisker menu by means of menulibre-changes are not saved. while in the classic menu-saved. I haven't checked,but a friend says that a similar situation a few distibutive. whisker menu is normally configured only in xubuntu.

Graeme Gott @gottcode said:

(In reply to vladimir from comment 2)

if you change the location of applications in the whisker menu by means of menulibre-changes are not saved. while in the classic menu-saved. I haven't checked,but a friend says that a similar situation a few distibutive. whisker menu is normally configured only in xubuntu.

What version of Whisker Menu are you using? The parsing of the menu items and categories isn't done by Whisker Menu directly; that is done by garcon, which the classic menu also uses, so I am not sure why changes wouldn't show up in both.

vladimir said:

(In reply to Graeme Gott from comment 3)

(In reply to vladimir from comment 2)

if you change the location of applications in the whisker menu by means of menulibre-changes are not saved. while in the classic menu-saved. I haven't checked,but a friend says that a similar situation a few distibutive. whisker menu is normally configured only in xubuntu.

What version of Whisker Menu are you using? The parsing of the menu items and categories isn't done by Whisker Menu directly; that is done by garcon, which the classic menu also uses, so I am not sure why changes wouldn't show up in both.

xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 2.2.1,garcon 0.6.1,menulibre 2.2.0

Graeme Gott @gottcode said:

I released version 2.4.0 of Whisker Menu today that changes the way the menu is loaded. Does this bug still happen for you with the latest version?

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Hi, I don't know if this is the right place for it, but I think I have similar problem. I'm using xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 2.5.3 on Manjaro 20.2.1. I remember using menu editor to add new programs to menu few months ago, but now this option is disabled/grayed out?

The option is grayed out if it can't find the program used to edit the menu. What program were you using?

Honestly I have no idea, I probably just used the default one. Weird that it just disappeared.

If you open the preferences of Whisker Menu and check the "Commands" tab it will tell you what program it is trying to use to edit the menu. The default program is menulibre, but I don't know if Manjaro has set it to something else.

Yeah, it's set to menulibre, I installed it again and it works as it should. Thank you so much!

No reply from OP in over a year, so lets close this.

closed

mentioned in issue #123 (closed)