Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE - vanishing apps

[Guy Harrison]

On Saturday 11 Feb 2006 09:56, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Saturday 11 February 2006 06:54, Duncan wrote:
> > Guy Harrison posted <200602110032.43938.swampdog-ml6@××××××××.com>,
> >
> > excerpted below,  on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:32:43 +0000:
> > > Over ssh most of my KDE apps have vanished off the startbar. Would
> > > appreciate a hint on how to restore them - is there a command like
> > > kappfiner (which doesn't) which will repopulate it?

[snip]

> And for the thread starter:
>
> did you a KDE update?

Not too recently. A week or two ago.

> from 3.4 to 3.5 was a change in the menu-structure - maybe you are
> looking at the wrong places?

I'm currently on 3.4.3 and if memory serves it was 3.4.1 - certainly no 
earlier than that prior to the upgrade.

The thing that stands out most is ssh. I've been using ssh from work to 
access GUI apps on this box for weeks. Whatever went wrong, went wrong 
whilst I was at work & whilst I was accessing this box. The desktop here 
was still up & running when I returned home - minus virtually all entries 
for KDE apps which I have ever used. Best I can tell, KDE app's I have 
never used are still there. The problem, whatever it was, only became 
apparent when, from work, I went to "view source" from kde filemanager for 
some html and up came gedit instead of the usual kwrite. It was been 
that way since. From kcontrol (that's gone from startbar as well) I go to 
file associations and (for instance) kwrite is not seen there either.

Atm I'm loathed to play around (still need this box from work). For the 
apps I know the name of, if I launch them from a console, up they 
come with settings intact.

I am hoping for some hints on how to repopulate the startbar 
automatically. Failing that, where to look inside $HOME/.kde for 
partially corrupted files.

TIA
Guy
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