Jim Hall wrote: > After a lot of frustration, this is what I've found. > > First: Alacarte is severly non-functional in several areas, trying to modify > entries is very difficult to impossible. This is Gnome's fault. Don't bother > to try. > > Second: Gnome menus are standard complient, Alacarte is the problem. > > (... etc. snipped) > Well, that's completely consistent with my experience, Jim, sadly. > Third: Wine menu entries will sometimes add by doing the following. > 1) Start a root terminal and type "update-menus" > 2) Do the same from a normal terminal logged in to the user that runs Wine. > 3) As crazy as it sounds - reboot. > 4) Recognise that this may not work for some entries, there may be no > current fix. Well, no joy for me. Mine's a bit more broken that most, I suspect... I think it's time for me to reinstall Linux... NOT! [Laughing] > Forth: BSD is supposed to have a workable menu editor for Gnome, but I don't know if there is an Etch port. If you look, find one, and it works, please let us know. Ooh boy! A chance to try to compile something from source??? For me that'd likely be a comedy. <hehehe> I'll at least do a little googling and see. Thanks for the feedback, Jim. It's appreciated. Be well, Mike D.
