On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 13:01 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Ryan Daly wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:48 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Kevin Krammer wrote: > >> > >>> Rex, this is this thread's archive reference [2] > >> Thanks, > >> > >> In particular, on redhat/fedora, redhat-menus owns > >> /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu, our kde packaging puts kdebase's > >> version at > >> /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu > >> or > >> /etc/kde/xdg/menus/applications.menu > >> > >> So, Fedora puts this snippet into it's kde startup environment, which > >> may be missing in this scenario. > >> > >> # XDG_CONFIG_DIRS: where to look for menu config(s) > >> if [ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}" ] ; then > >> XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/kde/xdg:/etc/xdg > >> export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS > >> fi > >> > >> # XDG_MENU_PREFIX > >> if [ -z "${XDG_MENU_PREFIX}" ] ; then > >> XDG_MENU_PREFIX="kde-" > >> export XDG_MENU_PREFIX > >> fi > > > > I do not have any XDG environment variables defined in my X session for > > either FC7 or RHEL 5. > > > > To correct that is the fix needed at the OS level, or something in my > > environment? > > Depends on which version of /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu you're > using. If that is the one owned by redhat-menus, then you'll need to > put kde's elsewhere, and definte the XDG_* env vars appropriately. See below: daly@riddler <2#> rpm -qf /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu redhat-menus-8.9.10-3.fc7 I have KDE installed in $prefix=/opt/kde/v3.5.7. I'm guessing it's here? daly@riddler <5#> ls /opt/kde/v3.5.7/etc/xdg/menus/ ./ applications-merged/ kde-information.menu kde-settings.menu ../ applications.menu kde-screensavers.menu What is the inclusive XDG env list is that I'd need to set? ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.