Can't add icon to desktop

[Ram3zani]

I am using Cinnamon 3.0.5 on Arch linux. When I right click on appllication icon in menu and choose "add to desktop" nothing happens.

[JosephMcc]

It works here. Are you sure you have desktop icons enabled in Cinnamon Settings->Desktop?

[f2404]

It's not working. '.xsession-errors' contains the following:

(cinnamon:751): Cjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: Error: Argument 'path' (type utf8) may not be null
ApplicationContextMenuItem.prototype.activate@/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/menu@cinnamon.org/applet.js:141
PopupBaseMenuItem.prototype._onButtonReleaseEvent@/usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui/popupMenu.js:143

[mtwebster]

You need cinnamon-menus 3.0.2 (fixed by linuxmint/cinnamon-menus@055bd2e)

[f2404]

Yep, Arch repo contains cinnamon-menus 3.0.1. Will flag the package as out-of-date.
Thanks!

[Ram3zani]

Thanks

[fx-kirin]

I'm struggling to solve this issue on Ubuntu 16.04 with Cinnamon 3.0.4. I have the same error message in .xsesssion. I did sudo make install of cinnamon-menu but nothing seemed to change.

$ dpkg --list | grep cinnamon
ii  cinnamon                                   3.0.4+xenial                                                amd64        Modern Linux desktop
ii  cinnamon-common                            3.0.4+xenial                                                all          Cinnamon desktop (Common data files)
ii  cinnamon-control-center                    3.0.0+xenial                                                amd64        utilities to configure the Cinnamon desktop
ii  cinnamon-control-center-data               3.0.0+xenial                                                all          configuration applets for Cinnamon - data files
ii  cinnamon-core                              2.8.0                                                       all          Cinnamon desktop environment - essential components
ii  cinnamon-desktop-data                      3.0.2+xenial                                                all          Common files for Cinnamon desktop apps
ii  cinnamon-desktop-environment               2.8.0                                                       all          Cinnamon desktop environment - full desktop with extra components
ii  cinnamon-l10n                              3.0.2+xenial                                                all          Translation files for the Cinnamon desktop
ii  cinnamon-screensaver                       3.0.0+xenial                                                amd64        Cinnamon screen saver and locker
ii  cinnamon-session                           3.0.1+xenial                                                amd64        Cinnamon Session Manager - Minimal runtime
ii  cinnamon-session-common                    3.0.1+xenial                                                all          Cinnamon Session Manager - common files
ii  cinnamon-settings-daemon                   3.0.1+xenial                                                amd64        daemon handling the Cinnamon session settings
ii  gir1.2-cinnamondesktop-3.0                 3.0.2+xenial                                                amd64        Introspection data for CinnamonDesktop
ii  libcinnamon-control-center1:amd64          3.0.0+xenial                                                amd64        utilities to configure the Cinnamon desktop
ii  libcinnamon-desktop4:amd64                 3.0.2+xenial                                                amd64        Cinnamon library for loading .desktop files
ii  libcinnamon-menu-3-0                       3.0.1+xenial                                                amd64        Cinnamon implementation of the freedesktop menu specification

Could you give me any hint?

[fx-kirin]

It's been fixed now but I didn't recognise when.