Appmenus not properly populated

[jpouellet]

Qubes OS version:

R4-rc1

Affected TemplateVMs:

dom0

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Under certain circumstances (not sure what yet) .desktop files will not propagate to ~/.local/share/applications, even though their per-AppVM files exist in ~/.local/share/qubes-appmenus/<appvm>/<appvm>-<app>.desktop.

My system has also never copied /usr/share/qubes-appmenus/* to ~/.local/share/applications (nor /usr/share/applications), leading me to initially believe that DispVMs were not implemented enough to be started by users yet (which does not appear to be true).

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Not minimal set of actions to reproduce, but:

• clone fedora-25 to T1
• install google-chrome in template T1
• make appvm A based on T1
• clone fedora-25 to T2
• install google-chrome and google-chrome-unstable in T2
• switch template for A from T1 to T2
• now no new .desktop files selected for A will be propagated to the ~/.local/share/applications despite ~/.local/share/qubes-appmenus/A/A-google-chrome{-unstable}.desktop existing (and being well-formed, and cp'ing into ~/.local/share/applications having the desired effect) and ~/.local/share/qubes-appmenus/A/whitelisted-appmenus.list listing google-chrome.desktop\n\ngoogle-chrome-unstable.desktop\n\n....

Expected behavior:

DispVMs startable via Q menu, and updating list of Applications for VM actually changing the desktop files in Q menu.

Actual behavior:

No DispVM .desktop files ever, sometimes AppVM .desktop files stop updating.

General notes:

simply invoking qvm-sync-appmenus does not resolve this - will need to dig into source

[marmarek]

As for DispVMs, there is a new way for setting menu for it. To get it on rc1 system: install updates and launch sudo qubesctl state.sls qvm.default-dispvm.

[marmarek]

As for DispVMs, there is a new way for setting menu for it. To get it on rc1 system: install updates and launch sudo qubesctl state.sls qvm.default-dispvm.

[qubesos-bot]

Automated announcement from builder-github

The package qubes-desktop-linux-common-4.0.8-1.fc25 has been pushed to the r4.0 testing repository for dom0.
To test this update, please install it with the following command:

sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-current-testing

Changes included in this update

[qubesos-bot]

Automated announcement from builder-github

The package qubes-desktop-linux-common-4.0.8-1.fc25 has been pushed to the r4.0 testing repository for dom0.
To test this update, please install it with the following command:

sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-current-testing

Changes included in this update

[qubesos-bot]

Automated announcement from builder-github

The package qubes-desktop-linux-common-4.0.8-1.fc25 has been pushed to the r4.0 stable repository for dom0.
To install this update, please use the standard update command:

sudo qubes-dom0-update

Or update dom0 via Qubes Manager.

Changes included in this update

[qubesos-bot]

Automated announcement from builder-github

The package qubes-desktop-linux-common-4.0.8-1.fc25 has been pushed to the r4.0 stable repository for dom0.
To install this update, please use the standard update command:

sudo qubes-dom0-update

Or update dom0 via Qubes Manager.

Changes included in this update