E. Liddell composed on 2020-01-28 19:40 (UTC-0500): > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:27:23 -0500 Felix Miata 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_desktop_user_guide/kde-menu.html> >> suggests >> touch $KDEDIR /share/services/update_ksycoca >> Substituting $TDEDIR produces no such file or directory. >> # 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). They both work. I have a normal and a complete backup, so I tried on on the normal and the other on the backup. :) > kappfinder may also be able to help selectively stick applications back onto > the menu, although it would require some user intervention. So far, no need to try this. :) Thank you! -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/