From kde  Tue Nov 13 19:01:36 2007
From: Rex Dieter <rdieter () math ! unl ! edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:01:36 +0000
To: kde
Subject: Re: [kde] Problem running kcontrol from menu
Message-Id: <4739F490.8080109 () math ! unl ! edu>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=119498060526410

Ryan Daly wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:48 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Kevin Krammer wrote:
>>
>>> Rex, this is this thread's archive reference [2]
>> Thanks,
>>
>> In particular, on redhat/fedora, redhat-menus owns
>> /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu, our kde packaging puts kdebase's
>> version at
>> /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu
>> or
>> /etc/kde/xdg/menus/applications.menu
>>
>> So, Fedora puts this snippet into it's kde startup environment, which
>> may be missing in this scenario.
>>
>> # XDG_CONFIG_DIRS: where to look for menu config(s)
>> if [ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS}" ] ; then
>>     XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/kde/xdg:/etc/xdg
>>     export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
>> fi
>>
>> # XDG_MENU_PREFIX
>> if [ -z "${XDG_MENU_PREFIX}" ] ; then
>>     XDG_MENU_PREFIX="kde-"
>>     export XDG_MENU_PREFIX
>> fi
> 
> I do not have any XDG environment variables defined in my X session for
> either FC7 or RHEL 5.
> 
> To correct that is the fix needed at the OS level, or something in my
> environment?

Depends on which version of /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu you're 
using.  If that is the one owned by redhat-menus, then you'll need to 
put kde's elsewhere, and definte the XDG_* env vars appropriately.

-- Rex
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