Re: programs not appearing on desktop menu

2001-10-16 Thread Aidan Christian O'Reilly
This thread gave me the clues to fix my problem--my Debian menus were empty. Instead of having to edit the xterm file, I had to edit doc-linux-html, going to (approximately) line 420, and removing the extra quotes from the word "Pocket." Thanks to all, hope this helps somebody else. Aidan On Tue

Re: programs not appearing on desktop menu

2001-10-16 Thread nate
joe golden said: > I am running the testing version of debian and have recently > installed povray, zed, circlepack and cooledit among others. None > of these recently installed programs appear on my desktop. I can > call them from an xterm, but can't get them directly from the > desktop

Re: programs not appearing on desktop menu

2001-10-16 Thread Greg Wiley
On Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 16-Oct-2001 joe golden wrote: > > I am running the testing version of debian and have recently installed > > povray, zed, circlepack and cooledit among others. None of these recently > > installed programs appear on my desktop.

Re: programs not appearing on desktop menu

2001-10-16 Thread burningclown
I too am running testing, and have had this prob in the past and have ignored it ... lately, some of these seem to have been resolved by running update-menus; others ... (like, oddly vim ... a recent development) remain. You can edit the menu files by hand, of course, butcha hafta -find- 'em firs

RE: programs not appearing on desktop menu

2001-10-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Oct-2001 joe golden wrote: > I am running the testing version of debian and have recently installed > povray, zed, circlepack and cooledit among others. None of these recently > installed programs appear on my desktop. I can call them from an xterm, but > can't get them directly from th