xfce upgrade kills xfce menus

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>
>>> Unfortunately, neither 'portmaster garcon' nor 'portmaster -r garcon'
>>> made
>>> any difference here.
>>
>> I don't use portmaster, so I don't know whether these command can
>> *force* update a package. However, for portupgrade, a --force option
>> is enough to do so. I met the same problem, and I have fixed it with
>> an *force* update.
>
> 'portmaster -r garcon' is like 'portupgrade -rf garcon'.
>

First, check whether you have the file
/usr/local/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu
If you don't have that, reinstall garcon.

If you have the file, the menu should work, but! The xfce4 upstream
has a problem in their new menu architecture: the application menu
only looks for .desktop files at .local/share/applications. So, if you
see only a few entities in your *working* application menu, copy all
.desktop files under /usr/local/share/applications to user
applications directory, or just ln -s the whole directory. So far, I
found no other way to solve this. If someone knows more, please reply
this thread.

-- 
Zhihao Yuan
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.