So I had some time on my hands today and was looking through my Whiskermenu on my old Acer AspireOne Netbook which is running LL 2.6 (which has been running LL for a year or more without any issues) and I found that after removing Google Chrome 32 bit browser (and replacing it successfully with Chromium), evidently there was a left over Google Apps entrie in the Internet section of the Whiskermenu that was nonfunctional. So I decided to remove it. When Right Clicking on the entry, there was not a delete option present, only Add to Desktop, Add to Favorites and Add to Pane I think.
So I did some research and found that I could go into /home/dan/.local/share/applications/ folder and I located an entry called Chrome-app-list.desktop and remove it, (I moved it to the trash can in case I needed it back) and sure enough, the dead entry was removed when I checked the Whiskermenu again.
I saw several other Google Chrome type entries with .desktop extensions in there as well, so I moved all of them to the Trash just in case I needed them back. I checked the menu and everything looked fine. I continued looking at menu entries and found an entry for Midori Speed Dial page which I clicked on and it opened a new blank page, so I decided to remove that entry by Right clicking on Menu>Edit Applications>Internet> and located the item, then accidentally double clicked on the check mark and my mouse jumped, so I'm sure I clicked on something else, but when I did, the Main Menu screen disappeared which I thought was odd. I then right clicked Menu>Edit Applications again to open the Main Menu to see if I had really unchecked the item and the Main Menu window would not open.
I then left clicked on the Menu button and to my surprise, ALL Menu Category entries were missing except Favorites and Recently Used, and both of those sub menu's were empty as well. The menu looks correct in every other way, and the blank entry window at the bottom is still there and the All Settings, Lock Screen, Switch Users and Log Out icons are still there and functional, but all of my other items are missing. I have no idea what I did, but it looks like it did it good...
Creating a new Menu Item in the task bar appears and acts exactly the same as the normal Menu button, so I removed it.
I attempted to reinstall the Whiskermenu using the apt-get install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin, but that did not seem to change anything. So I'm at a loss as to where to go from here.
I can login as another user on the same PC and the menu works fine, however that user is rarely used, so of course the menu items are different than my main user.
Any suggestions would be appreciated...
Thanks !
SOLVED - UPDATE 10:30PM, Apr 2, 2016
After reviewing all of the obvious stuff, I was unable to get this resolved, so I decided to start comparing files between this Acer Netbook and another ASUS Desktop machine I built that is also running LL 2.6 (I have 4 PC's running Linux Lite at this time)
After about an hour of hunting, I found that the xfce-applications.menu file located in my /home/dan/.config/menus/ folders were different between the two machines. The file on the Netbook was 0 bytes in size and the one on the ASUS PC was 7.6kB in size. So I simply copied the file on the ASUS Machine to a shared directory on my home network and then logged into that shared folder from the Netbook. I copied the file from the shared folder and pasted it into the /home/dan/.config/menus/ folder on the Netbook and saved it.
I then simply left clicked on the Menu button and to my surprise, all of my menu items were back!!!! (Well, at least I think they are all there, I haven't gone through every single one of the items yet, but it looks like it did before everything disappeared. Also, the Menu>Edit Applications>Main Menu works again as well.
I'm one Happy Camper tonight for sure!!!
Anyway, if anyone else runs into this problem, you might try doing this or even install a basic version of LL on another hard drive, then go grab this file in your home directory and copy it to your problem PC.
Hope this helps someone else down the road.
Have a great day!
Tenderfoot
