Gnome menu has no applications

So, the gnome menu has no applications...

Here's a picture, so you know what I mean:

 

Did it before?

 

Well, obviously it did. Like any other gnome menu full of applications

 

Ah, I see. Of course, I have to ask the standard "And what did you do just before it stopped working?"

Well, do you think your problem could be something like this?

 

Try the tri-menu system perhaps?
Also verify /usr/share/applications exist and has files in it.

 

It is something like that. But I have no idea what he mean when he said 'recreate it' or .rpmorig, since he's using red hat. Even if I wanted to recreate it, I wouldn't know what to write.

Yeap. Choke full of files.

 

Whatabout the standard tri-menu?

 

Opps. Forgot to tell you. Tri-Menu = no-go.

 

That's what I was afraid of...

Tried posting in the Ubuntu forums as well? I wonder...think I'll look around some more. Do you know where the application.menu file/folder is, but it's the recreation you're unclear on? Anyways, hope this gets cleared up.

 

I've posted there, as well as a gnome forum. So far, this thread is the only one with the biggest response. (*sobs* I love NBR *sobs*)

I know where the folders are and such.. Well, at least I know the sure-fire way of doing it is to re-install gnome or my OS, but surely there's a more 'elegant' way of doing things.

 

Wow. Hmmm....yes. So, do you have any clue what might have caused it?

I don't know if this is any help, but it did say something about removing/adding menu items.

 

Well, I know that after I install my Arch base system, I went with Gnome, and everything was ok. Then I switched to kdemod4.1 a bit, then to kdemod4.2beta, but that didn't work. Then I switched to kdemod4.1 again for about a week, then deleted that and came back to Gnome. That's when the menus disappeared.

 

Try right clicking > Edit menu.
If theres any checked boxes for apps you should see them in the menu.

 

Trust me, I've tried it..

 

Hmm....whoa.......try adding a new item/menu and seeing if it shows up?

 

No items are made, but menus just come out as alacarte-menu, alacarte-menu-1, alacarte-menu-2, etc.

I clicked on "Revert" on the bottom of the window, and it didn't work. Now I can't even open the "Edit Menus" application anymore.

 

I have no idea then.......hmmm....

 

pacman -R gnome gnome-extra
pacman -S gnome gnome-extra

best I can recommend

 

I've been thinking about that as well. Should I do a pacman -Scc first, just in case? Or it might just install the same gnome-extra stuff, any maybe there's problems in there.

 

Yes, it would probably help to clear pacman's cache, let us know how it goes.

 

Urgh! :cry:

After 45mins, the menu items still won't show. I think it's something to do with my settings in /home/gary/, rather than a problem with gnome. I blame my own mass DE switching a while back. Probably left some orphaned files or something.

 

Try to delete ~/.gnome, you'll lose all your settings, maybe ~/.gconf and related directories as well. Maybe it'll fix it, but first try adding a new user and logging in and testing it.

 

Nope. That didn't work as well. So it's probably an error happened in the root files. Urgh. This is getting annoying. A format is now extremely tempting.

 

Hmm.....reformat probably is the ticket.

 

*sigh* to think that it has to come to this... In Linux!