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by johnw
Sat May 13, 2017 10:29 am
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: Two distros
Replies: 1
Views: 4745

Re: Two distros

If you need to reboot to change distro's or desktop types that can be fine. I'm told it can be done. If you want to simply log out of one desktop such as lxde and then into another say kde or any other on the same machine things aren't really as they should be, Both desktops will have the same mix o...
by johnw
Fri May 12, 2017 1:23 pm
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: LXDE on machines with more than one desktop
Replies: 7
Views: 7917

Re: LXDE on machines with more than one desktop

Thanks. I had already been through the freedesktop spec's. The same site also has the desktop file specs but I suspect that older ones are ok on some desktops but maybe not on others. On kde for instance I have seen some that are flagged as illegal. Many now contain translations so that their names ...
by johnw
Thu May 11, 2017 11:47 am
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: LXDE on machines with more than one desktop
Replies: 7
Views: 7917

Re: LXDE on machines with more than one desktop

I've managed to get things back more less to where I started. I copied the system wide menu back to the ~/.config/menus directory. No joy but then remembered a comment on the arch wiki - clear the menu cache when ever anything is done with menus. There is a menus directory of ~/.cache. Once I had de...
by johnw
Wed May 10, 2017 3:36 pm
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: LXDE on machines with more than one desktop
Replies: 7
Views: 7917

Re: LXDE on machines with more than one desktop

I thought that I was getting somewhere. The first thing I did was edit the system wide lxde menu file that I had copied to ~/.config/menus/ and removed the entire accessibility category. That caused the category to disappear immediately so indicated that it was using this one. I kept a copy of the o...
by johnw
Wed May 10, 2017 12:21 pm
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: LXDE on machines with more than one desktop
Replies: 7
Views: 7917

Re: LXDE on machines with more than one desktop

Thanks for the posts. I.m not sure if show in functions in the desktop files any more. People often want to run a mix so suppose it saves editing them. A change may be on the way. I run opensuse and desktop files are starting to be prefixed org.kde or gnome. Some of these also include language trans...
by johnw
Tue May 09, 2017 4:24 pm
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: LXDE on machines with more than one desktop
Replies: 7
Views: 7917

LXDE on machines with more than one desktop

I'm thinking about a change and have installed LXDE alongside KDE. The main problem is that due to the way the freedesktop.org xdg spec is set up all of the applications on my machine in /usr/share/applications/ show up in the menu. Also the same in KDE. I log in using SDDM and have LXDE as a separa...
by johnw
Tue May 09, 2017 10:51 am
Forum: Installation and Upgrade of LXDE
Topic: LXDE menu buggy
Replies: 5
Views: 6487

Re: LXDE menu buggy

An old post now but I read it as I am having menu problems - soon to be mentioned in another thread. Others may look at this post too. I came across 2 links that might help.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM#Desktop_Path

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/Main_Menu

John
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