Ubuntu
menulibre package

Empty application list when menu edited with MenuLibre

Bug #1528035 reported by Luke Dixon
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This bug affects 6 people
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menulibre (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Focal
Invalid
Undecided
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Impish
Invalid
Undecided
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xfce4-appfinder (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Focal
Confirmed
Undecided
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Impish
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

I used MenuLibre to add an application to the menu.

Expected:
List of applications to be updated if any added, modified or removed.

Actual:
The list of applications was totally blank, no categories or applications shown.

It turns out if you edit the settings of xfce4-appfinder to not keep an instance running in the background, the issue is fixed.

Description: Ubuntu 15.10
Release: 15.10

xfce4-appfinder:
  Installed: 4.12.0-2
  Candidate: 4.12.0-2
  Version table:
 *** 4.12.0-2 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Tags: focal
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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :

xfce4-appfinder-WARNING **: 19:25:30.124: Failed to reload the root menu: Error on line 1 char 1: Document was empty or contained only whitespace

The bug does not occur when copying a premade .desktop launcher to ~/.local/share/applications while the appfinder is open.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xfce4-appfinder (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :

Debian report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=856798

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in menulibre (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Václav Haisman (vzeman79) wrote :

I just did hit this today on 20.04. The workaround of "It turns out if you edit the settings of xfce4-appfinder to not keep an instance running in the background, the issue is fixed." fixed it for me.

tags: added: focal
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Václav Haisman (vzeman79) wrote :

Package: xfce4-appfinder
Version: 4.14.0-1

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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote :

Reported upstream https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/-/issues/22

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Sean Davis (bluesabre) wrote :

Fixed in xfce4-appfinder 4.15.2.
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/-/blob/master/NEWS#L40

Changed in xfce4-appfinder (Ubuntu Impish):
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in menulibre (Ubuntu Focal):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in menulibre (Ubuntu Impish):
status: New → Invalid
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xfce4-appfinder (Ubuntu Focal):
status: New → Confirmed
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