Bug#872879: wmaker menu lost most of my apps

[Doug Torrance]

On 08/21/2017 09:53 PM, anomie at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Package: wmaker
> Version: 0.95.8-2
>
> After upgrading from 0.95.8-1 to 0.95.8-2, the menu seems to have lost
> the vast majority of my applications.
>
> ~/.xsession-errors tells me the following:
>
> /usr/lib/WindowMaker/wmaker(configureMenu(rootmenu.c:1513)): warning: using default menu file "/usr/share/WindowMaker/menu" as the menu referenced in WMRootMenu could not be found
> /usr/lib/WindowMaker/wmaker(WMReadPropListFromFile(proplist.c:1548)): warning: syntax error in file /usr/share/WindowMaker/menu, line 1: extra data after end of property list
>
> Not that /usr/share/WindowMaker/menu actually contains reference to the
> missing applications anyway.
>
> I suspect that whatever the "fix" was for bug 868431 somehow broke
> things.

Thanks for your report!

The goal was to replace the old Debian menu with a new 
freedesktop.org-like menu, but obviously something isn't working!

What are the contents of your ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu and 
/etc/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu?

Does the file /usr/share/WindowMaker/menu.hook exist?  Is it a symbolic 
link to /etc/GNUstep/Defaults/plmenu.Debian?  (For some reason, they're 
not showing up in the filelist [1], even though they ought to...)

Thanks again!
Doug

[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/wmaker-common/filelist