Hi. I've had this issue for awhile now, but that was after first going back to 20.04 even though I had 24.04 (a quick upgrade from Jammy) because I wanted Cairo Dock to work again. This post concerns Mate Menu not appearing when I click on it--just stating the start of the trouble. I have checked the mate-menu file and the applications.list is there and is correct in the info it contains.
location:/usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
location:/usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop
location:/home/anthony/.local/share/applications/shotwell.desktop
location:/usr/share/applications/org.keepassxc.KeePassXC.desktop
location:/home/anthony/.local/share/applications/mate-tweak.desktop
location:/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/ubuntu-mate-welcome_software-boutique.desktop
location:/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Software.desktop
location:/usr/share/applications/update-manager.desktop
location:/home/anthony/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop
location:/home/anthony/.local/share/applications/spotify.desktop
location:/home/anthony/.local/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop
I tried installing the Advanced Mate Menu (aka Mate Menu) by terminal since it was removed from Jammy. Here is the terminal output with the command run again:
anthony@anthony-OptiPlex-9010:~$ sudo apt install mate-menu [sudo] password for anthony: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done mate-menu is already the newest version (22.04.2-0ubuntu1). The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libaom3:i386 libavcodec58:i386 libavutil56:i386 libcairo-gobject2:i386 libcodec2-1.0:i386 libdav1d5:i386 libffi7 libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0:i386 libgomp1:i386 libilmbase24 libmp3lame0:i386 libnuma1:i386 libopenexr24 libopenjp2-7:i386 libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-minimal:i386 libpython2.7-stdlib libpython2.7-stdlib:i386 libreadline8:i386 librsvg2-2:i386 libshine3:i386 libsnappy1v5:i386 libsoxr0:i386 libspeex1:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386 libswresample3:i386 libtheora0:i386 libtwolame0:i386 libva-drm2:i386 libva-x11-2:i386 libvdpau1:i386 libvpx7:i386 libwebp6 libwebpmux3:i386 libx264-163:i386 libx265-199:i386 libxvidcore4:i386 libzvbi0:i386 python-pil python-pip-whl python2 python2-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
I was wondering what to do about this because the Advanced Mate Menu is awesome to me, having learned to modify the file applications.list in the folder mate-menu to get everything as I want. Thanks.