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

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

2009/6/9 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.

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