On Saturday 13 June 2009 11:33:56 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote:
> > Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least:
> > (11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : "must be started by Kdeinit";
> > (12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal ;
> > (13) reboot & restart FB but without 'kdeinit &' in ~/.xinitrc :
> > Krusader 'open with' ok !
> >
> > So my problem seems to lie in starting 'kdeinit' without the KDE desktop.
> > It will take another couple of reboots (tomorrow) to confirm this.
> > Mick mb doing things a bit differently & his problem mb elsewhere.
>
> I have rebooted a number of times (it's a laptop), always in xdm/fluxbox,
> but my Konqueror menus/kcontrol work fine now. I do not have kdeinit in
> the fluxbox startup file. Once I have booted up I will typically run {kgpg
> && kmail} to check my mail and occasionally launch konqueror with
> {kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing}. By that stage kdeinit will be running
> (when things are normal):
On the odd occasion when I run e17 these days, I run "kcminit" as step 1 after
logging in.
I have no idea how this actually works, but it fixes odd errors like fonts,
themes and IIRC once a weird menu problem (the details I forget).
Worth a try.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
