Hi, in my home folder I have a soft link for my menu: lrwxr-xr-x 1 ikiddo users 19 Dec 13 2003 menu.xfce4 -> /etc/xfce4/menu.xml When I want to edit my menu, I sudo nano -w menu.xfce4. This works flawlessly for menu entries in the root menu. But when I edit (or create) submenu(entries) glitches start to appear. When I add entries, the menu doesn't get updated. When I add a submenu, the menu doesn't work at all (right-clicking the desktop will result in a small box, just like what happens when you right click, without having any content in menu.xml). Quiting my session and logging in again (I use xdm) is needed to get the menu updated properly. But quitting my session closes all my programs, so I find it highly annoying. I'm using Gentoo Linux with xfce4-4.0.6 (that's gentoo's package name for xfce version 4.0.6). I'd like to help out and solve this bug, so just ask me what I can do and I'll do it. Greetings, Sam Besselink
this is normal behaviour. the menu in xfce 4.0.x doesn't support automatically reloading itself in response to changes. you need to run 'xfdesktop' again from a terminal, which will instruct the running instance of xfdesktop to reload its settings. xfdesktop does all this automatically in 4.2.