[Solved] Editing menu removes places

[al3xsh]

Hi,

I have just installed Mint 13 with Cinnamon and, after editing the menu entries, the places sub menu has disappeared! Does anybody have any idea how I can get it back as I use it quite a lot!

Also, does anyone know of a way to edit the "preferences" and "administration" sub menus as there are quite a few entries that I will never use?

Thanks,

Alex

[veggen]

The disappearing "places" menu problem is known and has been reported a million times already, so please search before posting.
You can track the issue here. It seems the has been fixed some time ago, so expect the problem to be gone in the next Cinnamon version.

[al3xsh]

And answering my own questions ...

1) Places comes back when cinnamon is restarted (either log out or alt+f2 & type 'r').

2) To edit the 'preferences' and 'administration' submenus you have to edit the *.desktop files found in /usr/share/applications/ those with Categories=Settings; appear in preferences, those with Categories=System;Settings; appear in both. To avoid entries appearing in both you can edit /etc/xdg/menus/cinnamon-settings.menu and remove the <Category>Settings</Category> entry from the 'Administration' menu - e.g.

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  <!-- System Settings -->
  <Menu>
    <Name>Administration</Name>
    <Directory>cinnamon-settings-system.directory</Directory>
    <Include>
      <And>
        <Category>System</Category>
      </And>
    </Include>
  </Menu>     <!-- End System Settings -->


Then edit the appropriate *.desktop files to make sure they go where they should!

Hopefully someone will eventually integrate this functionality into the cinnamon menu editor.

Alex

[OldSkibum]

Thank you Alex.

+1 on the integration suggestion.

[squeezy]

You can edit those sections using the Main Menu application. Cinnamon is cursed with two menu editors that don't interact well.