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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:38:45
Message-Id: 200906131737.11079.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved ! by Mick
1 On Saturday 13 June 2009 11:33:56 Mick wrote:
2 > On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote:
3 > > Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least:
4 > > (11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : "must be started by Kdeinit";
5 > > (12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal ;
6 > > (13) reboot & restart FB but without 'kdeinit &' in ~/.xinitrc :
7 > > Krusader 'open with' ok !
8 > >
9 > > So my problem seems to lie in starting 'kdeinit' without the KDE desktop.
10 > > It will take another couple of reboots (tomorrow) to confirm this.
11 > > Mick mb doing things a bit differently & his problem mb elsewhere.
12 >
13 > I have rebooted a number of times (it's a laptop), always in xdm/fluxbox,
14 > but my Konqueror menus/kcontrol work fine now. I do not have kdeinit in
15 > the fluxbox startup file. Once I have booted up I will typically run {kgpg
16 > && kmail} to check my mail and occasionally launch konqueror with
17 > {kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing}. By that stage kdeinit will be running
18 > (when things are normal):
19
20 On the odd occasion when I run e17 these days, I run "kcminit" as step 1 after
21 logging in.
22
23 I have no idea how this actually works, but it fixes odd errors like fonts,
24 themes and IIRC once a weird menu problem (the details I forget).
25
26 Worth a try.
27
28 --
29 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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