Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: solved

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

2009/6/9 Philip Webb <purslow@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
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Regards,
Mick