[12:25] <Nivex> I installed xfce on my netbook last night and the Applications Menu is empty when I click on it, but there's plenty there when I bring up the menu editor
[12:40] <holstein> Nivex: the right-click one? or both?
[12:40] <holstein> is this in 11.10?
[12:41] <Nivex> the app menu in the panel. 11.04
[12:41] <holstein> interesting
[12:42] <holstein> did you instal XFCE or xubuntu-desktop?
[12:42] <Nivex> xfce4 and a few other choice packages
[12:43] <Nivex> I thought maybe it was the configs I imported, so I backed up ~/.config/xfce4 and got it out of the way. Panels all snapped back to defaults but the apps menu was still shot :(
[12:45] <holstein> who knows what customizations happen though
[12:45] <holstein> to make xubuntu
[12:45] <holstein> i would think you could get a fairly generic functional XFCE though...
[12:45] <Nivex> odd... I picked the xubuntu session instead of the xfce session this time (first time I saw that in the login) and the apps menu is there
[12:46] <Nivex> If I can get things tweaked where I want them I might pull GNOME off this thing entirely
[12:46] <holstein> thats what we are doing with ubuntustudio
[12:46] <holstein> the xubuntu team is quite active too
[12:50] <Nivex> also trying to get compiz to work, not because I need all the fancy effect, but because the screen updates are smoother with acceleration
[12:50] <Nivex> but xfce and compiz aren't as tightly integrated as under gnome
[12:53] <Nivex> yep, definitely the difference between "Xfce session" and "Xubuntu session" for getting the applications menu to work. Very strange.
[12:53] <Nivex> not sure what I installed where
[12:59] <Nivex> oh charming. running compiz, I hit Alt+Space to bring up the window context menu and it crashes
[13:00] <holstein> lol
[13:08] <Nivex> I think I'll give up on compiz for now. found the xfce settings editor (omg hax!) and turned on compositing. Seems to work OK.