| danielveazey | hi all | 15:10 |
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| kwadroke | hello | 15:10 |
| danielveazey | i installed gnome 3 on ubuntu 11.04 a couple days ago. i like it, but i have just now run into a little hiccup that's puzzling me | 15:11 |
| danielveazey | after i installed gnome 3, i installed pidgin through the terminal, a la "sudo apt-get install pidgin" | 15:11 |
| danielveazey | now when i press the logo key and type pidgin in gnome 3, no matches come up, but i can go to the terminal and type pidgin and it runs | 15:12 |
| kwadroke | sorry, connection dropped. | 15:17 |
| kwadroke | I haven't used gnome 3 myself | 15:17 |
| kwadroke | I use LXDE | 15:17 |
| kwadroke | well, I guess he's gone | 15:18 |
| danielveazey | well i uninstalled and reinstalled it and now it's showing up. i'm going to try restarting the computer to see if it does it again | 15:20 |
| kwadroke | it might take it a bit to show up in the menus | 15:25 |
| kwadroke | I don't use gnome anymore and haven't tried gnome3 yet | 15:26 |
| kwadroke | course there might be a command to re-generate the menus too | 15:26 |
| danielveazey | ok, it seems like every time i restart, i get a message after the login screen that says something like "we encountered an error and we can't recover from it" with a restart button. i press the button and it doesn't actually restart, it just goes back to the login screen. i log in again and it goes to the desktop, no problem. but pidgin disappears again from gnome 3's applications while still being able to run from the terminal | 15:27 |
| a_unix_geek | i would create the menu shortcut manually | 15:28 |
| danielveazey | let me see if i can figure out how to do that ... | 15:29 |
| kwadroke | make sure there's a pidgin.desktop in /usr/share/applicatins | 15:30 |
| kwadroke | */usr/share/applications | 15:30 |
| kwadroke | gnome should be building the menu there | 15:30 |
| kwadroke | *from there | 15:31 |
| a_unix_geek | Launcher and Menus is the app that you create a new link in. | 15:32 |
| danielveazey | interesting, there is no pidgin.desktop in there ... | 15:32 |
| a_unix_geek | Well, I thought it was | 15:32 |
| a_unix_geek | This new interface isn't so friendly | 15:33 |
| a_unix_geek | ok, Main Menu is the app that lets you customise the menu. | 15:34 |
| a_unix_geek | Kwa, are you using the new unity thing? | 15:34 |
| kwadroke | no | 15:34 |
| kwadroke | I've only played with it briefly on a livecd | 15:34 |
| a_unix_geek | oh yea, you're using lxde | 15:34 |
| a_unix_geek | muh bad | 15:34 |
| kwadroke | if I was going to use it, I'd go with unity2d | 15:35 |
| a_unix_geek | Long ago my choice was Icewm | 15:35 |
| danielveazey | ok i added it ... going to restart and see if it sticks. i'll be back in a couple minutes. thanks for the help. brb | 15:35 |
| a_unix_geek | np | 15:35 |
| danielveazey | did not get the error screen. pidgin shows up in the menu now. thanks for the help | 15:38 |
| a_unix_geek | awesome | 15:39 |
| kwadroke | I'm guessing something wasn't allowing the .desktop file to be generated | 15:39 |
| kwadroke | which was what was crashing | 15:40 |
| danielveazey | i reckon so. otherwise, i really like gnome 3. it's pretty like kde, but to me it's more intuitive | 15:40 |
| kwadroke | brb fire alarm | 15:44 |
| a_unix_geek | I'm going to try both. | 15:44 |
| a_unix_geek | LOL | 15:45 |
| a_unix_geek | have fun on your break kwad | 15:45 |
| kwadroke | back | 15:52 |
| GreyWolf | good evening | 23:58 |
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