Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: solved
2009/6/9 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: 2009/6/9 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: 2009/6/9 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: After the usual night's sleep to clear the cerebral tmp files I thought of starting the new day in KDE to try fixing things there. I swapped to my KDE version of ~/.xinitrc then did 'startx' yes the desktop menus the panel menu had vanished. Then I started Krusader, got the 'open with' box for a text file told it to open the file with Leafpad: it did some updating obeyed. After that, the other default 'open with' apps worked as before the KDE menus had been restored. To get Apwal back with L-mouse I had to use the KDE Control Centre 'desktop behaviour' re-apply it. So everything is back to normal Krusader behaves properly on Fluxbox too. Thanks Phillip. Did you get any apps in the 'Open With' menu list? Mine is empty. To get any application to open a file I have to type it manually (or choose one from the cached drop down entries in the Open With panel). I ran kate %U, but nothing much happened. :( Will try to repeat all this in a KDE session just in case. Meanwhile, what does your /home/user/.config/menus/applications.menu look like. Mine is empty and comes up with the error shown below: $ kbuildsycoca --menutest Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP. kbuildsycoca running... kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca kbuildsycoca: WARNING: Parse error in /home/michael/.config/menus/applications.menu, line 1, col 1: unexpected end of file Fixed it! I had to delete /home/michael/.config/menus/applications.menu, then change my setup to login using kdm/KDE instead xdm/fluxbox and this time kbuildsycoca worked. Phew! All my menus are back, Kleopatra works fine, and kcontrol has a list on the LH side. Getting back to fluxbox works as normal again. Thanks for the pointer! :) It seems that the elog message was implying that one must be using KDE as a DE rather than individual applications. Blast! I spoke too soon. This morning same story ... Menus are not present and running $ kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing kbuildsycoca running... kfmclient: ERROR: Couldn't start konqueror from konqueror.desktop: Could not find service 'konqueror.desktop'. brings up the same error. :( There must be a more intelligent fix to this than me booting into KDE every time I want to use a KDE application ? What's up with your KDE menu Phillip? Were you able to make the changes stick? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: solved
090608 Philip Webb wrote: 090608 Mick wrote: I seem to have installed kde-base/mimelib, I guess as dependency: eix kde-base/mimelib Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(20:11:53 06/07/09)(-debug -elibc_FreeBSD) I also tried changing fluxbox for kdm (in case this is a fluxbox WM issue) and restarted X with kdm. Ran kbuildsycoca, but same error again. I always 'startx' from a raw terminal. I recompiled kcminit kfind kpersonalizer kreadconfig rebooted, but there is no change in Krusader's behaviour. After the usual night's sleep to clear the cerebral tmp files I thought of starting the new day in KDE to try fixing things there. I swapped to my KDE version of ~/.xinitrc then did 'startx' yes the desktop menus the panel menu had vanished. Then I started Krusader, got the 'open with' box for a text file told it to open the file with Leafpad: it did some updating obeyed. After that, the other default 'open with' apps worked as before the KDE menus had been restored. To get Apwal back with L-mouse I had to use the KDE Control Centre 'desktop behaviour' re-apply it. So everything is back to normal Krusader behaves properly on Fluxbox too. HTH anyone else. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: solved
2009/6/9 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: After the usual night's sleep to clear the cerebral tmp files I thought of starting the new day in KDE to try fixing things there. I swapped to my KDE version of ~/.xinitrc then did 'startx' yes the desktop menus the panel menu had vanished. Then I started Krusader, got the 'open with' box for a text file told it to open the file with Leafpad: it did some updating obeyed. After that, the other default 'open with' apps worked as before the KDE menus had been restored. To get Apwal back with L-mouse I had to use the KDE Control Centre 'desktop behaviour' re-apply it. So everything is back to normal Krusader behaves properly on Fluxbox too. Thanks Phillip. Did you get any apps in the 'Open With' menu list? Mine is empty. To get any application to open a file I have to type it manually (or choose one from the cached drop down entries in the Open With panel). I ran kate %U, but nothing much happened. :( Will try to repeat all this in a KDE session just in case. Meanwhile, what does your /home/user/.config/menus/applications.menu look like. Mine is empty and comes up with the error shown below: $ kbuildsycoca --menutest Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP. kbuildsycoca running... kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca kbuildsycoca: WARNING: Parse error in /home/michael/.config/menus/applications.menu, line 1, col 1: unexpected end of file -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: solved
2009/6/9 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: 2009/6/9 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: After the usual night's sleep to clear the cerebral tmp files I thought of starting the new day in KDE to try fixing things there. I swapped to my KDE version of ~/.xinitrc then did 'startx' yes the desktop menus the panel menu had vanished. Then I started Krusader, got the 'open with' box for a text file told it to open the file with Leafpad: it did some updating obeyed. After that, the other default 'open with' apps worked as before the KDE menus had been restored. To get Apwal back with L-mouse I had to use the KDE Control Centre 'desktop behaviour' re-apply it. So everything is back to normal Krusader behaves properly on Fluxbox too. Thanks Phillip. Did you get any apps in the 'Open With' menu list? Mine is empty. To get any application to open a file I have to type it manually (or choose one from the cached drop down entries in the Open With panel). I ran kate %U, but nothing much happened. :( Will try to repeat all this in a KDE session just in case. Meanwhile, what does your /home/user/.config/menus/applications.menu look like. Mine is empty and comes up with the error shown below: $ kbuildsycoca --menutest Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP. kbuildsycoca running... kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca kbuildsycoca: WARNING: Parse error in /home/michael/.config/menus/applications.menu, line 1, col 1: unexpected end of file Fixed it! I had to delete /home/michael/.config/menus/applications.menu, then change my setup to login using kdm/KDE instead xdm/fluxbox and this time kbuildsycoca worked. Phew! All my menus are back, Kleopatra works fine, and kcontrol has a list on the LH side. Getting back to fluxbox works as normal again. Thanks for the pointer! :) It seems that the elog message was implying that one must be using KDE as a DE rather than individual applications. -- Regards, Mick
