Originally Posted by Nathraiben

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Appendix 1: Help, I messed up!
(This section might be expanded when more problems and solutions are found )

I did something wrong and now nothing works! Not even my desktop icons!
The desktop is actually also a part of the Hildon framework, so if we mess around with hildon.menu we risk messing up EVERYTHING.

Luckily, there's a way to still access your X Terminal - all it takes are nimble fingers, since the (hardware) keyboard combination for that is Cntr+Shift+X... :P

Once in the terminal, you can either delete the faulty hildon.menu file

Code:

rm /home/user/.config/menus/hildon.menu

or open it with the text editor in order to replace the incorrect code (most probably a simple type - especially check for missing slashes in closing tags)

Code:

pygtkeditor /home/user/.config/menus/hildon.menu

After finishing my new folder simply doesn't show up and all it's content is still in the main folder...
In my experience, this hints on a typo in your [nameoffolder].menu file. If it is not valid XML (again, most probably simply thanks to a minor typo), Hildon will simply ignore it.

Thankfully, it seems like it's not messing up the whole system like hildon.menu does, so you should be fine simply looking for the typo and correct it. No breaking your fingers while trying to hit Ctrl-Shift-X...

My folder is there, but it's really ugly - why is it not showing the icon I assigned it???
So far I've found two possible errors that make the icon not show, both inside your [nameoffolder].directory file:
1) If it shows a simple blue block instead, it's most probably a typo in the icon=[] line.
2) If it shows the former "More..." icon (a colourful array of boxes), the .directory file is either not valid or missing (for example, when there's a typo in the reference to this file from within [nameoffolder].menu). In that case, especially check whether there are any typos in the header "[Desktop Entry]" or the line beneath - and whether the line <Directory>[nameoffile].directory</Directory> in your .menu file is okay, too.






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