On Tuesday 28 January 2020 19:40:03 E. Liddell wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:27:23 -0500 > > Felix Miata <mrmazda@...> wrote: > > A fellow user suffered extreme visual impairment, which severely > > limits his ability to use his PC. At irregular intervals, I > > straighten out his problems, and do his release upgrades. > > > > Somehow in his desire to reduce clutter on Kicker by deleting unused > > objects he has managed to eliminate a large number of items from his > > main menu. Office is totally absent, even though the entirety of > > LibreOffice is installed. Likewise, Internet, Utilities and System > > are also missing. Is there some simple XDG or other way to > > regenerate the menu that doesn't eliminate menu customization or > > impact Kicker? > > > > <https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_desktop_guides/kde_de > >sktop_user_guide/kde-menu.html> suggests > > > > touch $KDEDIR /share/services/update_ksycoca Meaning KDEDIR has not been defined and exported. The $ sign means get it from the environment, env in a terminal. I don't us it now for years, so I can't help. > > Substituting $TDEDIR produces no such file or directory. s/b TDEDIR=/opt/trinity, or is here. > > > > # man ksycoca > > No manual entry for ksycoca > > # man xdgmenu > > No manual entry for xdgmenu > > # man update-menus > > No manual entry for update-menus > > $ ls -l .*xdg* *xdg* > > ls: cannot access '.*xdg*': No such file or directory > > ls: cannot access '*xdg*': No such file or directory > > > > :( > > My system suggests that you may want "xdg-desktop-menu forceupdate" > (xdg-utils, has a man page on my system) or maybe "tdebuildsycoca" > (TDE, no man page). > > kappfinder may also be able to help selectively stick applications > back onto the menu, although it would require some user intervention. > > E. Liddell > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>