screwed up my KDE menus and I want them back

mtombs

Like I said, I've screwed up my KDE 3.2 menus and I want to restore the defaults. Anybody got any ideas as to how I go about it?

thanks

Mark

boyadg · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 15

I once did the same thing (screw up kde's application menu) and I recovered it by booting a Knoppix CD and grabbing a copy of the /usr/kde/<insert version here>/share/applnk directory.

It wasn't perfect, but it worked.

Given M. Sur · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:02 pm Post subject:

In KDE 3.1.x there was a "show hidden items" option that showed all the default ones that you had deleted. So if you by chance haven't upgraded to 3.2 (doesn't seem likely for a Gentoo user) you can do that.

I don't understand why they got rid of that option.
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mtombs · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:20 pm Post subject:

Its KDE 3.2. Its my personal menus, not the 'system' menus, so I assumed the they would be under ~/.kde/share/applnk, but they're not. I can't find anything anywhere that corresponds to the items I see on my K menu. Its really annoying me. Somebody must know where and how these things are stored...

Herodot · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject:

The Kmenu is in ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu
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mtombs · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:12 am Post subject:

typical. What the hell are they doing there? Thanks for the info though.

mtombs · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:30 am Post subject:

As far as I can make out, the file ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu records the changes you make to the standard menu. So, delete that file completely and you get the system standard menus back. Would have saved me some hair pulling, that.