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

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

2009/6/9 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

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.
-- 
Regards,
Mick