Timeline for Editing Main Menu Item
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| Sep 13, 2019 at 2:26 | comment | added | tlfong01 | I restarted Rpi and surprisingly found the desktop almost blank, with only two lonely icons: trash can and Thonny. I right clicked blank screen to a little menu, where I can switched to terminal emulator. Everything was slowly walking like a lame duck. I guess my os is corrupted. Luckily I have almost everything PureFTPd synced to PC. So I only need to reinstalled a couple of packages: LIRCd, PureFTPd, etc. I am going to use another backup SD card and start a new page of my Rpi life. I am keeping my corrupted SD card, hoping one day I know more about LxPanel and come back to rescue her. | |
| Sep 12, 2019 at 14:04 | comment | added | tlfong01 | @Dmitry Grigoryev, Just now I tried to reinstall the lxpanel. I first remove lxpanel then install. However, install procedure got messed up with lirc daemon which I forgot to stop. Anyway, I think there are too many things or traps that a linux newbie like me would fall into. BTW, your comment "the format of .desktop files is pretty self-explanatory" makes me laugh (or in my native language, “bitterly laugh". I guess it might take me at least 30 minutes to google the weird .desktop parameters before I have confidence to modify anything. Anyway, might try later. Many thanks again. | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 13:37 | comment | added | tlfong01 | @Dmitry Grigoryev, Many thanks for your great help. I will try it tomorrow and let you know how it goes. | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 13:31 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev |
@tlfong01 Removing the main menu can be easily undone by reinstalling the lxpanel package from the command line.
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| Sep 11, 2019 at 13:08 | comment | added | tlfong01 | Oh my goodness. This afternoon I was playing with Windows pinging Rpi on Ethernet and Wifi. I removed the Wifi from the main menu but then when I tried to put it back later, I could no long found it!. I was worrying if I should flash a new SD card. But then you are coming to rescue me! I will try to see what did you do later. | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 13:03 | comment | added | Wt Riker | The main menu editor is working, it is just that the one application I need to fix is not there. | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 11:36 | answer | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 5:16 | comment | added | tlfong01 | One more thing. If you create a new panel, and later want to remove it, system will warn you panel CANNOT be recovered. So if you by mistake REMOVED MAIN MENU, you might be in big trouble, because without main menu, you cannot do anything afterwards, or onlt limited things. So if you made a mess, you might not recover, and need to start afresh a new SD image. I am not complaining anything, because the whole menu thing is already a big improvement, over terminal commands and raspi-config. I do think the menu program is very complicated and little bugs here and there are reasonable. | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 1:52 | comment | added | tlfong01 | Let me see what do I see in "Preferences > Main Menu Editor > Programming", I see the ticked and unticked items. I tried unticking some and found it works. I later ticked some others and also find it works. So my menu editor is working OK. I do remember twice I messed up the menu and could no longer get it work back again. I also read others reporting the same problem. My quick and dirty conclusion is that raspbian 10 buster desktop still has some teething problems. The easy get around is install a new SD card image! :) | |
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