Libreoffice Base not showing on Business menu (Solved)

[Limadito]

Howdy!

I'm running BookwormPup64 10.0.0.10 on my old Vaio laptop and I'm happy as a dog with two tails.
However, I've installed Libreoffice whit Synaptic (using the Debian repositories) and Libreoffice Base launcher does not appears on the Business menu.
All dependencies needed to run Libreoffice are met and the components work very well.

Going thru Menu > Setup > Menu Manager, Libreoffice Base appear as selected to be shown, but it doesn't.

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The Menu Tab from JWMDesk shows a "Legacy Manager"...

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with no traces of Libreoffice Base here, but is clearly running the show

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Any help that makes appear Base in the Business menu will be appreciated.
Thanks you in advance!

[mikewalsh]

@Limadito :-

Me, I use the AppImage-based portable version I put together, and simply select the app I want from LibreOffice's own, "internal" menu. No need for menu entries that way.

Still; if you go into /usr/share/applications, look for the libreoffice-base.desktop file, and open it up with Geany, what is the "Categories" line set to? What does it read as?

Mike.

[d-pupp]

@Limadito I would try running fixmenus. There should be a menu entry for it. If not type the command into a terminal.

[mikewalsh]

@Limadito I would try running fixmenus. There should be a menu entry for it. If not type the command into a terminal.

@d-pupp :-

THAT was going to be the next step. I wanted to find out just what the 'Categories' line read, since if it's not one that matches with what Puppy recognises, it might have needed altering to one that will.

But you may be right to suggest it straight off. I came across one the other day; a .deb package, its .desktop entry
indicated it should have shown up in Puppy immediately.....yet it didn't. Even after the install, when Puppy should have run fixmenus, etc, automatically, it still didn't show.

It needed

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fixmenus

.....followed by

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jwm -restart

.....both running a second time before it condescended to show up in the main Menu. Weird!

Mike.

[Limadito]

@Limadito I would try running fixmenus. There should be a menu entry for it. If not type the command into a terminal.

Tried, to no avail. Restarted JWM also. Not a wiener.

@Limadito :-

Me, I use the AppImage-based portable version I put together, and simply select the app I want from LibreOffice's own, "internal" menu. No need for menu entries that way

.

Will check this option

Still; if you go into /usr/share/applications, look for the libreoffice-base.desktop file, and open it up with Geany, what is the "Categories" line set to? What does it read as?

It reads

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Categories=Office;Database;

Added the Business category

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Categories=Office;Database;Business;

followed by

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fixmenus && jwm -restart

on the terminal. Still no juice.

Commented the code above and left only "Business" and ran the fixmenus and wm restart pair.

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Categories=Business;

Nothing. A bit lost here.
Thank you all for the inputs!

[MochiMoppel]

Commented the code above and left only "Business" and ran the fixmenus and wm restart pair.

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Categories=Business;

Should be

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Categories=X-Business

Will show immediately in the Business menu. No need to run fixmenus or to restart jwm.

[hikohan]

Create your own style menu in /usr/share/applications/ or /root/.local/share/applications/

Edit BLAH.desktop, change Categories value you prefered.

JWM do support sub-menu extend.

[mikewalsh]

@hikohan :-

Yeah, I've done the same in my Multimedia menu.....for my video editors, screen capture apps & webcam stuff:-

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Of course, you can pull this trick anywhere in the main Menu. Once you've figured it out, it's a piece of cake to repeat anywhere you want. It's yet another reason I like JWM/ROX-filer.....despite the need to use the text editor, it's extremely versatile.

Because I'm constantly adding new stuff to Menu -> Multimedia, I have it set up as a separate text file in /etc, then called from /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc by the use of the <include> tags in the category listing. Works nicely!

(I have "guest_1111" to thank for this.....long-term regulars will know to whom I am referring (he who shall not be named! ))

Mike.

[Limadito]

Commented the code above and left only "Business" and ran the fixmenus and wm restart pair.

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Categories=Business;

Should be

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Categories=X-Business

Will show immediately in the Business menu. No need to run fixmenus or to restart jwm.

This did the deed.
The problem was that in my inexperienced quest for the solution I ended with two libreoffice-base.desktop entries, in different places, with different data in the "Category" tag.

@hikohan @mikewalsh
Nice tricks you pulled there.

Thanks a lot guys, great community!