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I too had the empty control center, but did something different
(just can't remember what) that fixed it.
Brian
I compiled and installed the KDE2.1beta2, and after a restart I
had the problem of duplicate menu entries, AND an empty control
center.
I recalled some article on this list saying that the menu
structure of the kmenu is corrected with kbuildsycoca.
Well, I ran it as root and as user, and after that suddenly my
control center was not empty any more
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] kcontrol STILL doesn't function
"Blank Control Center" (kcontrol)
FWIW, (as user) first thing I did after updating to KDE2b2 was to
make sure everything was working (it was). Then I installed a few apps I
use and made the menu entries using menudrake. Then as has been my habit
with the early updates I made a backup copy of the ../.kde/share/applnk/
directory. Everything is still fine at this point including kcontrol.
Then, as in earlier kde2 updates, I started File Manager as root and
changed owner of /applnk/ to root. With earlier updates this always
prevented losing my user changes. This time it broke kcontrol, it was
blank (no modules), and unusable. All I had to do to fix it was to copy
my bakup /applnk/ back in, after deleting the 'root' owned /applnk/
KDE2b2 has not lost any of my user changes, but messin with /applnk/
as root will break kcontrol ..... so don't ;>
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
On Monday 29 January 2001 07:42 pm, Kelley Terry wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2001 11:54 am, you wrote:
> > I just installed the latest KDE2.1 beta for 7.2. All now seems OK
> > (after I again deleted my .kde/ directory and re-setup everything
> > AGAIN) except kcontrol. Kcontrol, as with the previous 2.1
> > iterations, will not work for user. As superuser, if I start
> > kcontrol from a terminal, it works. As a user, it produces a
> > useless, empty menu selection field. REPEATED deletions of .kde and
> > even .kderc followed by re-logins fails to fix it. It doesn't work.
> >
> > How does one get the #&@%!!! kcontrol to work? It also keeps putting
> > itself into a nameless folder in the kmenu rather than properly
> > sitting there by itself.
> >
> > Anyone?
>
> Consider yourself lucky. My kcontrol got messed up when I was doing
> maintenance as root. Now the kcontrol has an empty menu window for not
> only root but every user. I've tried moving .kde and then logging in
> again. It still wouldn't work but at least I could restore the old
> .kde directory again afterwards.
>
> Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
