On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:02 AM, John Frankish <j-frank...@slb.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm using gnome-shell on a simple linux system having compiling > > > > > the various components from source. > > > > > > > > > > Whilst things seem to work well in the "activities view", I do not > > > > > get any application icons on the desktop nor applet icons in the > > > > > top panel. > > > > > > > > > > I can use nautilus to navigate to /usr/local/share/applications > > > > > and launch various gnome apps by double-clicking on the *desktop > > > > > files, so things seem to be in order, but I cannot figure out why > > > > > there are no application icons on the desktop. > > > > > > > > > > Note that I've enabled desktop icons using dconf-editor, but this > > > > > does not change anything - any trouble-shooting suggestions would > > > > > be welcome. > > > > > > > > It might make it easier to troubleshoot if somebody could help me out > > > with the following: > > > > > > 1. What application/script/etc does gnome-shell use to search for > > > available applications? > > > > > > 2. What determines where gnome-shell searches for available applications? > > > > > > 3. What does gnome-shell search for - *desktop files, cache file from > > > update-desktop-database, or? > > > > > In GNOME 3.10 and below, gnome-shell uses libgnome-menu to search for > > applications. Make sure your gnome-menus components is properly installed > > and updated, and you have menus in /etc/xdg/menus/. > > Additionally, make sure that your $XDG_MENU_PREFIX is set to "gnome-", > > since that's the name of the menu files that gnome-menus installs. This > > should be set by gnome-session on startup. > Thanks - that fixed it :) > > $XDG_MENU_PREFIX was not set (why wouldn't gnome-menus/gnome-shell assume > "gnome-" as default until told otherwise?) > > Because the spec says that it should assume the empty string if not set. > Again, this set very explicitly by gnome-session: > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/tree/gnome-session/main.c#n393 > > so I'm not sure why it's not working. > I double-checked and XDG_MENU_PREFIX="gnome-" or /etc/xdg -> /usr/local/etc/xdg alone are not enough to fix things, both are needed.
gnome-session doesn't appear to be setting $ XDG_MENU_PREFIX, but perhaps I'm starting gnome-shell incorrectly? $ cat ~/.xsession ... XDG_MENU_PREFIX="gnome-" "$DESKTOP" 2>/tmp/wm_errors & ... Where $DESKTOP=gnome-shell _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
