xfce4 "other" submenu disappears

[earthling]

Hi,

I see a recurring problem with the XFCE4 submenu "Other" going away at more or less random times.
Seems to happen when I install/uninstall something, but not always. And, not an item in that submenu.

When I log out and log back in, the "other" submenu is there again.

Why would that be? And also, where on earth are these submenus hidden? There is no menu editor any more for XFCE4.

Thanks for any pointers.

[stoat]

Originally Posted by earthling

When I log out and log back in, the "other" submenu is there again.

Why would that be?

Hello earthling,

I don't know the answer to that. Sorry. And I'm not having that problem, but I can say a few things about it. I customize my XFCE panel menus to create a new submenu and add my personal scripts in there. I seem to remember having to log out and back in to see the new menu entries while I'm tinkering with them. When I'm done with them, I have no further problems with them. So maybe it's kinda normal behavior of XFCE after you install something that adds to the panel menus. Later, I learned that the desktop and the panel menus can be refreshed with this instead of logging out...

xfdesktop -reload

Originally Posted by earthling

And also, where on earth are these submenus hidden? There is no menu editor any more for XFCE4.

The components of the XFCE panel menus are located in /etc/xdg/menus and /usr/share/applications. The default icons seem, to me, to come from usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/categories. Anyway, you probably should not directly tinker with things in those locations. Instead, you should copy them to ~/.config/menus, ~/.local/share/applications, and ~/.local/share/desktop-directories in your home directory where your adjustments will sort of take precedence. You can teach yourself more about it from here...

http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu

[earthling]

Thank you stoat,

that gives me something to work with.

My guess is that the source of the menu is not consistent, between my local copy and the system copy of the menus.