Centos 7/Gnome Applications menu items don’t respond

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I have CentOS 7 installed with gnome. After some uptime, no items under the 'Applications' menu respond.* I can open the menus and submenus and hover over items with the mouse pointer. They will highlight correctly, but they do not respond to clicks.

The items also do not respond to keyboard navigation where I can still use the arrow keys to move around the menus and highlight items, but hitting enter etc. does not launch the application/tool highlighted.

Restarting the machine helps, but that seems a heavy handed solution to the problem.

*With the exception of the 'Activities Overview' item

Best Answer

This is a known issue. See here:

apps-menu: Exception: can't convert event.get_time() to an integer #7

A fix is to change line 77 of /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/extension.js

from:

this._app.open_new_window(event.get_time());

to:

this._app.open_new_window(-1);

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Once you get the name of that file, open up /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu, look for lines like this <Filename>XXXX.desktop</Filename>, and move it anywhere you like (or just delete that line)

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Basically, those menu items are .desktop files. The usual paths are:

~/.local/share/applications
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To continue with your exemple:

[workstation] user ~ >cat /usr/share/applications/vncviewer.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=TigerVNC Viewer
Comment=Connect to VNC server and display remote desktop
Exec=/usr/bin/vncviewer
Icon=tigervnc
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=TigerVNC Viewer: Connection Details
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I suggest you first check if those .desktop files are well created.

If not stored in the same path, you can search for those with the following command: find / -name '*.desktop'

If you don't find those files, you can create those using the template from my vncviewer.desktop

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