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I have a new problem that I can't find an answer to anywhere. I am running Xubuntu 12.10 Xfce. When I click on the top left icon, which is known as the Application menu, it gives me this error:

Failed to load the applications menu : Error on line 1 char 1: Document was empty or contained only whitespace.

Can someone please suggest any solutions for this problem.

Kevin Bowen
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Removing and reading didn't help me, but after reading (but not trying) user63872's answer, I just deleted this one file: 

~/.config/menus/xfce-applications.menu

and suddenly it worked again.

BuZZ-dEE
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user148230
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That didn't work for me but copying the contents of /etc/xdg/menus/ over the contents of HOME/.config/menus/ as a merge/replace did, this reset the menu to a default layout and got it working again. I think the main menu editor may not have worked correctly for me and caused this error, but that's just a guess. There is probably a more specific way to fix but I don't know myself.

BuZZ-dEE
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user63872
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    Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! This seems to be an answer and not *just* a comment on another answer, but *which* answer are you saying *didn't* work? Please note that [Ask Ubuntu works very differently from a forum](http://askubuntu.com/about); there's no persistent *order* that answers appear. – Eliah Kagan Apr 10 '13 at 09:36