Removing the Debian menu from Gnome?

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adrian440 · #1 Post by **adrian440** » 2006-03-21 09:29

Just wondering if anyone has had success at doing this.

Running sarge, I've purged menu and menu-xdg, then I removed /var/lib/gnome, since that was untouched by the purgin process and seemed to be where the menu entries were.

Now I still have an empty "Debian" entry on my gnome menu.

Anyone have any ideas?

porschemad911 · #2 Post by **porschemad911** » 2006-03-21 10:17

I'd be really, really keen to know the answer to this. I've done a base install, then slowly added the bits I want (and only the bits I want), eg gnome-core, and I have an empty and useless Debian menu hanging there. I don't have the menu or menu-xdg packages installed and /var/lib/gnome doesn't exist.

domecq · #3 Post by **domecq** » 2006-03-21 20:03

Create a new user and log into a fresh desktop, just to see if that empty Debian entry is also shown there.

adrian440 · #4 Post by **adrian440** » 2006-03-21 22:33

Just tried it, the new user still has an empty debian menu.

domecq · #5 Post by **domecq** » 2006-03-21 22:54

If you right-click on the empty Debian entry, do you get any option to remove it from the menu?

jobezone · #6 Post by **jobezone** » 2006-03-22 00:19

domecq wrote:If you right-click on the empty Debian entry, do you get any option to remove it from the menu?

Or right-clicking the Applications menu, is there a "Edit menu" option? Under gnome 2.12 there is.

adrian440 · #7 Post by **adrian440** » 2006-03-22 11:42

Since I'm using sarge, its actually gnome 2.8.

The normal gnome menu I can edit fine using ye old nautilus method (I believe this stopped working after gnome 2.8):

Open a nautilus window, then type ctrl-L for location, then enter applications:/// or applications-all-users:///

This however, doesn't work for the Debian menu which seems to be hacked on some other way.

porschemad911 · #8 Post by **porschemad911** » 2006-03-23 10:41

Yes, I've hunted and hunted down every configuration file I can find with no luck ... I hope it's not embedded in the Sarge Gnome source code. I doubt it, but you never know.

orbit · #9 Post by **orbit** » 2006-03-23 20:58

hi, i was looking for a solution to that matter and find on a german fedora wiki the following:

type in terminal

cd /usr/share/applications/kde
for i in *; do echo "OnlyShowIn=KDE;" >> $i;done

it worked for me very well.

orbit · #10 Post by **orbit** » 2006-03-23 21:02

sorry, i gave wrong information. I didnt read the topic all, and thought you meant to remove the kde entries from gnome menu. about debian menu matter my solution doesnt help.

sorry

mullins · #11 Post by **mullins** » 2006-03-26 12:16

orbit wrote:hi, i was looking for a solution to that matter and find on a german fedora wiki the following:

type in terminal

cd /usr/share/applications/kde
for i in *; do echo "OnlyShowIn=KDE;" >> $i;done

it worked for me very well.

Could this be modified to remove GNOME menu entries in KDE???

If it could I'd be keen!

Guest · #12 Post by **Guest** » 2006-03-30 13:15

I'm using etch, not sure if the same applies for sarge

I moved debian-menu.menu in /etc/xdg/menus to .debian-menu.menu

/etc/xdg/menus/.debian-menu.menu

then pkill -HUP gnome-panel

porschemad911 · #13 Post by **porschemad911** » 2006-03-31 01:51

Well, I have devised a fix that I am very, very happy with. Use XFCE! It's way faster and leaner which I love; I was tiring of Gnome anyway.

But seriously, there must be a way. I have looked through almost every file brought up using:

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locate debian

and:

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locate menu

And nothing.

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