[PLUG] Resolved: Program installed but not showing up in Ubuntu MATE 18.04 menu

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Tue Jul 31 22:00:53 UTC 2018


On 07/31/2018 02:44 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 11:28:35 -0700
> Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> dijo:
>
>> On 07/31/2018 11:10 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>> I just downloaded and installed
>>> virtualbox-5.2_5.2.16-123759~Ubuntu~bionic_amd64.deb using the GDebi
>>> Package Installer on my Ubuntu MATE 18.04 machine. The package
>>> installer indicates that the program was installed, but there's no
>>> entry for it in the Ubuntu MATE menu. A search in that menu for
>>> VirtualBoxVM returns empty. How do I find out where it was
>>> installed? And, how do I get it into the menu? I suppose I don't
>>> really need it in the menu if I can put a launch icon in the panel.
>>>   
>> One of the changes in Ubuntu MATE 18.04 is that the entries in the
>> menu bar were reduced to a single Menu. I found a video that pointed
>> out how to use MATE Tweak to return to the Traditional panel layout,
>> which has Applications, Places, and System. Once I did that I was able
>> to find VirtualBox in the Applications > System Tools menu. Why it
>> wasn't in the menu of the "Familiar" layout, I don't know. (Familiar
>> is the name of the default panel layout.)
> Menu items are created by .desktop files, one of each program.
>
> <...>
>
> I recently spent more than a full day fixing my menus to be the way I
> want them and figuring out how to do it.
> _______________________________________________

Thanks, John. I may need to fool with that one of these days.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens




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