DispVM: Terminal
DispVM: Web Browser
Screen Capture Program
Software Management
Everything else is gone. They were there one minute, and then gone the next. I have performed Dom0 updates and rebooted afterward to see if it fixed the issue, without success.
What is the recommended course of action?
> I can't help but I had this happen once using Xfce as the desktop. All
> my 'start menu' disappeared bar a few.
It happened to me at least once before under R3.1 as well, also randomly with no obvious or apparent cause. The System Tools menu items stayed gone for several weeks, then one day after new Dom0 updates they magically re-appeared again, with no explanation.
I can also confirm that at the login screen if I choose xfce as the desktop environment, the missing shortcut issue still persists, so it isn't an intrinsic KDE thing indeed, as surmised.
On a related note, I'm not even sure whether entries like "DispVM: Web Browser" are meant to appear under System Tools in R3.2, or if that is a menu glitch as well. Previously DispVM had its own top-level menu entry like any other AppVM, under which different app shortcuts appeared, so I don't know if something else has gone wrong.
Is there a text file somewhere in Dom0, from which the System Tools menu obtains its default list of items? And if so, is it possible for someone with a functioning menu to "dump" the contents of that file here in this thread, so that I can copy and paste them into my presumably broken source file here, if such a thing is even possible?
> I re-installed. Possibly a bug then in this case?
I would really, really, really like to avoid having to re-install my entire operating system just to fix some missing menu entries, especially since it could presumably happen again at any given time thereafter. No other template or app vm's are affected, only Dom0. Surely there must be some alternative way to fix this issue, without resorting to ssuch drastic measures. Anyone?
Similar to if I'd made a dom0 backup and wanted to restore it completely. But since I don't have such a backup, can dom0 be effectively restored with a terminal command that will force-refresh everything from the repository?
> I'm afraid I don't have any special insight into this problem. (I
> vaguely recall that it happened to me once on 3.1, then I think I
> ignored the problem and it eventually reverted itself somehow.)
>
> However, it occurs to me that what you're asking about is primarily a
> KDE issue, and the information you seek should, in principle, be
> available from a KDE source (docs, devs) or even Fedora or another
> distro that uses KDE. To clarify: The *cause* may be Qubes-related (I
> have no idea), but the default file/list for KDE System Tools should
> probably be the same as in non-Qubes KDE installations. At least, it's
> worth checking.
The file may possibly be in the same place, but of course in the case of Qubes it is a customized one containing entries like "Qubes VM Manager" etc, so I would need that specific one. I don't know the default location.
Also as noted however, it makes no difference whether I use Xfce or KDE. In either case I have no menu item available anywhere for "Qubes VM Manager" which I normally would, so it is a pan-desktop-environment issue, likely related to Qubes itself rather than one of the DE's.
So far I have not found any solution to this, and am looking at a complete system re-install in order to fix one single interface issue.
Thanks for your efforts to assist with this. I copied the text you posted and saved it as a .desktop text file as you suggested, and then moved it into the /usr/share/applications folder of dom0, and then rebooted.
It doesn't seem to have had any effect, though it's hard to tell since the xfce "start menu" doesn't appear to even have a "system tools" menu entry to begin with, unlike the kde plasma one. There is a "System" menu at the very top, but that contains a whole gigantic mess of shortcuts from every VM I have, all jumbled together in one big chaotic list. However, clumped together midway through that menu are the few dom0 shortcuts I still have (apper, DispVM Browser etc) and there doesn't seem to be any new item referencing the xfce4 terminal.
Is there anything else I can try at this point? I've noticed that I keep getting notified that Qubes Dom0 updates are available, but whenever I run sudo qubes-dom0-update it reports no packages to download, nothing to update.
Any other ideas or suggestions would be more than welcome. Thanks.