On Wednesday 10 Apr 2002 8:01 am, you wrote: > On Wednesday 10 Apr 2002 4:30 am, madwand wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > > > I just burned a CD as root, logged out from root and logged in as a user. > > > > During the KDE load sequence I noticed that konqueror appeared twice on > > the taskbar, as hourglass icons, but did not load. When I tried to > > access my home directory, the hourglass icon appeared on the taskbar but > > the directory did not open. When online, I tried to use konqueror for > > browsing, however, once again the hourglass icon appeared but konqueror > > did not load. > > > > Any thoughts on what's going wrong? Any suggestions on what to look for? > > I'm very much a newbie at this so step by step guidance on what > > information I should provide would be appreciated. > > > > I am running 8.1. > > > > madwand > > Yep thats a common problem. It often seems to be associated with installing > the rpm kdebase-nsplugins > To fix it open KDE Control Centre>WebBrowsing>NetscapePlugins > If the 'Scan for new plugins at KDE startop' box is checked then uncheck > it click 'Apply' then restart KDE. > > If it is still no good then in a terminal type > cd ~/.kde/share/config > rename konquerorrc konquerorrc.bak > > and then restart KDE. This will remove your konqueror settings. On > restarting a new file will be created and your konq will revert to default > settings. It should then start OK. > > HTH > > derek
Thanks Derek. Unchecking the "scan for new plugins" did it. madwand
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