[15:10] <danielveazey> hi all
[15:10] <kwadroke> hello
[15:11] <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"
[15:12] <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
[15:17] <kwadroke> sorry, connection dropped.
[15:17] <kwadroke> I haven't used gnome 3 myself
[15:17] <kwadroke> I use LXDE
[15:18] <kwadroke> well, I guess he's gone
[15:20] <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
[15:25] <kwadroke> it might take it a bit to show up in the menus
[15:26] <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
[15:27] <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
[15:28] <a_unix_geek> i would create the menu shortcut manually
[15:29] <danielveazey> let me see if i can figure out how to do that ...
[15:30] <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
[15:31] <kwadroke> *from there
[15:32] <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
[15:33] <a_unix_geek> This new interface isn't so friendly
[15:34] <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
[15:35] <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
[15:38] <danielveazey> did not get the error screen. pidgin shows up in the menu now. thanks for the help
[15:39] <a_unix_geek> awesome
[15:39] <kwadroke> I'm guessing something wasn't allowing the .desktop file to be generated
[15:40] <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
[15:44] <kwadroke> brb fire alarm
[15:44] <a_unix_geek> I'm going to try both.
[15:45] <a_unix_geek> LOL
[15:45] <a_unix_geek> have fun on your break kwad
[15:52] <kwadroke> back
[23:58] <GreyWolf> good evening