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Saturday, April 19th 2003, 4:40am

KDE Start Menu, Red Hat 8

I have been trying for DAYS to edit my start menu. There is an entry called 'Extras' that contains entries that fit into the other categories and I was trying to clean it up a bit. However, it won't let me because I am not using the root account. No problem... I log out and login as root, and use kmenuedit. Problem solved. Nope... My changes, as far as cutting and pasting the entries elsewhere took, but the 'Extras' entry is still present. Now I have two shortcuts to all of the files I cut and pasted (the originals and the new copies). I have been chasing entries in the .kde/share... directory along with /usr/share.... and /var/lib.... to no avail. I deleted the 'Extras' entries in these so-called 'vfolders' (what the heck are these things?) and the problems still exist. To make it even worse, none of the changes took effect in my mortal user profile, even after I copied the applnk-redhat file into the user's .kde/share..... directory. Please let me know if there is anything that I can do. I am pulling out the last of my hair here... Any help is greatly appreciated.
SuSE 10.0
ASUS A8V Deluxe
AMD Athlon64 3800+
2Gb Crucial TwinBank PC3200 DDR RAM
ATi All-in-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro
Soundblaster Audigy2
3x160Gb SATA Maxtor MaxLine III 16Mb Cache
1x120Gb SATA Maxtor 16Mb Cache

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Wednesday, April 23rd 2003, 1:35pm

i had the same problem. as a result i hate the red-hat tweaks of kde, but i cant do anything about it... :(

have you tried hiding the extras folder, and manually creating new apps in the other folders? that worked for me.

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Thursday, April 24th 2003, 3:43am

Start menu...

I have never had to do that before... I will have to do some reading on that so I don't mess it up to bad :) Yeah, I am a little of a linux newbie. I have dinked around with it for about 6 months, VERY off and on, only within the past week actually using it primarily...
SuSE 10.0
ASUS A8V Deluxe
AMD Athlon64 3800+
2Gb Crucial TwinBank PC3200 DDR RAM
ATi All-in-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro
Soundblaster Audigy2
3x160Gb SATA Maxtor MaxLine III 16Mb Cache
1x120Gb SATA Maxtor 16Mb Cache