One of my packages went missing from the start menu.
When I do pacman -Qs package it says that it is still on my system but since it is not in my start menu I cannot launch it.
How do I fix this and why did it happen in the first place?
Thank you for your answers.
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kmenuedit
I donāt know, you have provided very little information
we can find the āmenu entryā in package (if exists)
pamac list vlc --files | grep 'application.*desktop$'
that is the thing, it cannot be found in kmenuedit
papajoke showed you how to look up the entry for the vlc package, you havenāt told us anything about what package you are referring to, is it from stable/testing, is it an AUR package, If it is a main / community package that is part of the distro, you will get much help, if it is an unmaintained or largely unknown āpackageā that you are referring to - ??? More info as to what you have, where you got it, desired end state etc is necessary.
Whichā¦ application?
Did you try what was explained in the earlier post?
yes, it is in /usr/share/applications
but the file is completely empty
and this:
was only an example - your problen isnāt vlc
or is it?
no it is a different package and the file exists for that package in /usr/share/applications
The file is completely empty though
We pretty much knew that.
Why not just name the package?
ā¦ so that we (others) can have a look at what the actual problem might be which you canāt find?
strange strategy when asking for help ā¦ 
ledger-live-bin
Why do you even bother helping him? If you have to beg someone to give info so that YOU can help HIMā¦just close the thread, bye bye. 
I will try to provide all the information you need.
there should be a file
/usr/share/applications/ledger-live-desktop.desktop
and it should not be empty
if it is - I donāt know why.
The file is in the appimage, thats for sure.
reinstall?
Iād also rather use this:
(figure of speech - I actually wouldnāt do anything crypto currency)
There should be a .desktop file under /opt/
What are the contents of,
cat /opt/ledger-live/ledger-live-desktop.desktop
And also list the contents of the directory, since it should have a symlink that points to ā /usr/share/applications/ledger-live-desktop.desktop
ls -l /opt/ledger-live/
Looking at the AUR and the comments inside the PKGBUILD, as well as comparing it to the GitHub, this package is a messā¦
In fact, the PKGBUILD is pointing to a deleted tag from upstream.
Maybe the developers of Ledger Live arenāt using proper versioning etiquette, or just donāt care.
I didnāt read it, or did any testing on it.
But I did read the appimage one.
Iām not very familiar with interpreting the sed commands which alter the .desktop file ā¦
but it should be there in /opt and a link to it in /usr/share/applications
Iām out - canāt contribute any more.
contents of cat /opt/ledger-live/ledger-live-desktop.desktop :
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Ledger Live
Exec=ledger-live-desktop --no-sandbox %U
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=ledger-live-desktop
StartupWMClass=Ledger Live
Comment=Ledger Live - Desktop
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/ledgerlive;
Categories=Finance;
contents of ls -l /opt/ledger-live/ :
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142599 2022-12-12 17:10 chrome_100_percent.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209188 2022-12-12 17:10 chrome_200_percent.pak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1084808 2022-12-12 17:10 chrome_crashpad_handler
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15088 2022-12-12 17:10 chrome-sandbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10215904 2022-12-12 17:10 icudtl.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 145025616 2022-12-12 17:10 ledger-live-desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 246 2022-12-12 17:10 ledger-live-desktop.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 2022-12-12 17:10 ledger-live-desktop.png -> usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/ledger-live-desktop.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 228008 2022-12-12 17:10 libEGL.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2805104 2022-12-12 17:10 libffmpeg.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6839048 2022-12-12 17:10 libGLESv2.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3973680 2022-12-12 17:10 libvk_swiftshader.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 469064 2022-12-12 17:10 libvulkan.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1096 2022-12-12 17:10 LICENSE.electron.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5440553 2022-12-12 17:10 LICENSES.chromium.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2022-12-12 22:52 locales
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2022-12-12 22:52 resources
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5864244 2022-12-12 17:10 resources.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49272 2022-12-12 17:10 snapshot_blob.bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2022-12-12 22:52 swiftshader
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2022-09-17 22:34 usr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164475 2022-12-12 17:10 v8_context_snapshot.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107 2022-12-12 17:10 vk_swiftshader_icd.json
Moderator edit: In the future, please use proper formatting: [HowTo] Post command output and file content as formatted text
So it does exist, then can you post this output, to make sure itās properly pointing back to the original?
ls -l /usr/share/applications/ | grep -i ledger
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2022-12-12 17:10 ledger-live-desktop.desktop -> /opt//ledger-live-desktop.desktop