Lost my Start Menu

[Guest]

Hello, post number 1. Sorry for the 'dumbness', I'm new to all this Linux stuff, but thoroughly enjoying it.

I was fiddling the other day, I wanted to create, what you'd call in Windows, a new Program Group. I can't exactly remember what I did now as it's a few days later, but I've lost my Start Menu. All I have is 'Favourites', 'Computer', Run and Leave. I've lost all my programs & program groups.

Can anyone help?

With thanks.

[kubicle]

I can't exactly remember what I did now as it's a few days later

That's not much to go with, but kmenueditor saves user configurations in ~/.config/menus/ (that is /home/<username>/.config/menus/)
... deleting the .menu files in there should restore the menu to defaults.

rm ~/.config/menus/*.menu

[Guest]

Yes, sorry, the information was a bit sparse.

I'm running Kubuntu 13.10. I was trying to create a new program group so I could put links to all the extra apps i've installed in it. When I went back to my menu, I noticed I only had the menu listings mentioned above.

I went into .config/menus and all there was was a txt file. I deleted that, rebooted and no difference. Now there's nothing in that folder and my menu hasn't changed.

Thanks for any help.

[kubicle]

Hmm...you might also try clearing the files in ~/.local/share/applications (you can move them out to a "backup" location instead of deleting, so you can move them back if that does not help)

Also, which "start menu" widget are you using (there are quite a few available, and I have no idea which is currently used by default on kubuntu), just to make sure there aren't any widget specific kinks that might cause the issue.

[Teunis]

The regular 'Start' menus are Plasma-Widgets and can as such be placed and removed.

The Nuclear option to restore to a default desktop is by removing the ~/.kde directory.
A more prudent option and easy to revert is to rename this ~/.kde directory and reboot.