I have had a rather annoying problem on my Ubuntu box for the last few days. Not sure how it happened, but my application menu suddenly stopped working. Whenever I clicked on the menu I just got a tiny grey box with nothing in it where the menu should have been.
After a lot of googling with no success, I finally stumbled on a post that mentioned some files in ~/.config/. When I had a look in there, there was a subdirectory called menus which contained a file called applications.menu. I had a look at that file, and sure enough it was empty. After having a quick look at my other Ubuntu box I noticed that box had no applications.menu, so I deleted the empty file and hey presto!
Just the solution I was looking for. Thanks!
Thanks!! This did the trick.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, this was getting annoying.
I’m running Gentoo and I had the same problem you described, but for me I had to run
ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu ./applications.menu
after remmoving applications.menu before anything reappeared.
You rock! Fixed my problem!
I wish to hug you, man! You saved me a lot
Thanks – that was an easy fix to an incredibly obnoxious problem