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
