Gnome Question: How do you unlock the gnome menus for editing???

[Clinton MacDonald]

Dr. Sacco:

A caveat: I am not anywhere near a Linux machine right now, so I cannot 
test this.

Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> The Gnome-2.6 menus appear to be locked and cannot be edited
> using nautilus.

By "menus," do you mean the applications menu in the lower left (often) 
of the kicker panel? I thought that there was a dedicated utility to 
edit these menus, not Nautilus. Try right-clicking or middle-clicking -- 
as a regular user -- in various places around and near the kicker panel. 
I seem to recall that this would invoke the menu editor (whose name 
cannot be found easily using Google). I *do* remember that the place to 
click to bring up editor was not immediately obvious to me, so be creative.

> For example, any attempt by "root" to add a folder to the
> Applications menu causes nautilus to crash.

I also recall that editing the Gnome application menu in Red Hat Fedora 
Core 2 inevitably caused a crash of the editor app while it was loading. 
By watching the loading sequence carefully, I noticed that it always 
crashed at a certain point when the application icons were loading, so 
trashing those icon files fixed the problem. Possibly YDL 4.0 inherited 
that bug.

I hope this points you in the right direction.

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>