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« Thread Started on Jan 29, 2011, 1:46am »
CrossOver Office 9.x doesn't play well with the Xfce menu'ing system (Xfce =< 4.6) therefore it is necessary until Xfce 4.8 to patch the menu.  Here is how to do it:

Patch the following in /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu under "Accessories".  Follow the format you see there with indentation/spacing, etc:


     <Menu>
       <Name>CrossOver</Name>
       <Directory>.directory</Directory>
       <DirectoryDir>/opt/cxoffice/support/desktopdata/cxoffice-0/cxmenu/xdg-applications/CrossOver</DirectoryDir>
       <AppDir>/opt/cxoffice/support/desktopdata/cxoffice-0/cxmenu/xdg-applications/CrossOver</AppDir>
       <Include>
         <Filename>Install+Windows+Software.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>Manage+Bottles.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>User+Documentation.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>Terminate+Windows+Applications.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>Run+a+Windows+Command.desktop</Filename>
          <Filename>Register+and+unlock+this+demo.desktop</Filename>
         <Filename>Uninstall.desktop</Filename>
       </Include>
     </Menu>



The main CrossOver Office Menu will now show up after refreshing the Xfce Menu.  Adding Windows Apps can easily be done by examing the Menu'ing options in CrossOver Office and making links.  I launch MS Office 2007 apps from my AWN Dock for example.


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« Reply #1 on Jan 29, 2011, 5:55pm »


Thanks!
I was looking for that.   :)


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« Reply #2 on Jan 29, 2011, 6:33pm »


it didn't work for me, I followed every single step carefully, and now I have a non working xfce menu, I even took the care of copying the
xfce-aplications menu file and restoring it back, it still my apps menu won't work, it won't display anything


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« Reply #3 on Jan 29, 2011, 6:50pm »


Did you refresh the Xfce menu?  There are easy ways, but it is probably best to reboot. 


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« Reply #4 on Jan 30, 2011, 1:36am »


yes I did rebooted and still no luck, a warning should be posted with every howto


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« Reply #5 on Jan 30, 2011, 2:17am »


ok, this is my last chance to have my menu working, can someone please copy and paste everything on their default xfce-applications.menu file, so I can copy and paste and overwrite my default file, I will really appreciated it, ( I just found out that the copy I had as a backup copy is empty ) 
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« Reply #6 on Jan 30, 2011, 9:55am »


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« Reply #7 on Jan 30, 2011, 12:51pm »


A suggestion: in the future, before you modify any system text files in Linux, I'd suggest copying and pasting somewhere that it won't be overwritten by the system or messed with in any way.  I usually drop a copy into my Documents folder to make sure I have a good backup before I start messing with stuff that I haven't previously.  That way, if things go south, I can just copy and paste the file from my Documents folder back to the original folder and all is good.


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« Reply #8 on Jan 30, 2011, 1:14pm »


I thank you very much hipsauerkraut, you just saved my day.   :)

@ scifidude79

I always do that I have an external usb drive where I have copies of anything that is important, but for some reason when I copied the file is was copied as an empty text file   ???, strange things happens in this world.

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Jan 30, 2011, 1:14pm, fitus wrote:
@ scifidude79

I always do that I have an external usb drive where I have copies of anything that is important, but for some reason when I copied the file is was copied as an empty text file   ???, strange things happens in this world.


Yeah, that is weird.  Like you said, though, weird stuff happens.  Maybe it's one of those files that doesn't like to be copied.  Either that or you just got very unlucky.


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yes indeed maybe that's what happened, but now I am very happy if you check  http://salinelinux.proboards.com/index.c....play&thread=104 you will find out why. 
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« Reply #11 on Jan 30, 2011, 3:01pm »


Sorry you had the menu problems, but something else had to have happened....pasting that patch in there without modifying anything else just won't hose the menu like that....did you find out exactly what changed? (besides the text pasted/)


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I really don't know what happened, I also copied the file using gksu cp command, but I got an empty file, so who knows what happened, but now everything is fine and working well, now I can mess with my system any way I wish and restore it to a working state, oh boy I love that remastersys program, I just installed virtualbox and a few programs, so my system install is about 7gigs big worth of programs and re-ran remastersys backup and now my iso is about less that 3gigs big, and it works because am posting this from my second remastered recovery dvd and I have checked all the programs are there.
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Jan 30, 2011, 3:39pm, fitus wrote:
I really don't know what happened, I also copied the file using gksu cp command, but I got an empty file, so who knows what happened, but now everything is fine and working well, now I can mess with my system any way I wish and restore it to a working state, oh boy I love that remastersys program, I just installed virtualbox and a few programs, so my system install is about 7gigs big worth of programs and re-ran remastersys backup and now my iso is about less that 3gigs big, and it works because am posting this from my second remastered recovery dvd and I have checked all the programs are there.
here is a very happy saline os user   ;)  ;)  ;)


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« Reply #14 on Jan 31, 2011, 10:28pm »


Here's where you can find the individual windows apps exe paths I mentioned in the first post.  If the mod wants to attach this screenie to first post and delete this post, that would be great  :)




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