Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying

2009-01-27 Thread Warren Liddell
Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE4.1.4 and recently for no reason i can think of when i try and load FireFox or Thunderbird, according to my process list, the applications are running, but yet they dont ever show up in KDE to use//liaise with. I have even started them from command line

Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying

2009-01-27 Thread Warren Liddell
Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE4.1.4 and recently for no reason i can think of when i try and load FireFox or Thunderbird, according to my process list, the applications are running, but yet they dont ever show up in KDE to use//liaise with. I have even started them from command line

Re: Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying

2009-01-27 Thread craig001
Im running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE AMD64 KDE4.1.4 and recently for no reason i can think of when i try and load FireFox or Thunderbird, according to my process list, the applications are running, but yet they dont ever show up in KDE to use//liaise with. I have even started them from command line

Re: Programs loading but sitting in limbo whilst not displaying

2009-01-27 Thread Warren Liddell
Hi Warren I also had this problem, I resolved it by; portupgrade -Rf firefox My understanding is that this goes and forcibly builds all of the ports that firefox depends on, then firefox itself. If you run the commands with truss it will give you some debug information on what it is