On Tuesday 14 Feb 2006 11:56, Duncan wrote: > Guy Harrison posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > excerpted below, on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:26:16 +0000: > > On Monday 13 Feb 2006 00:40, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> On Monday 13 February 2006 01:02, Guy Harrison wrote: > >> > 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. > >> > >> with startbar you mean kicker? > > > > Not sure. I've never thought to wonder what it is actually called! > > The drop down menu which holds all the apps along with "most used > > Applications", "All Applications", "Actions" sections in it. > > OK, the whole set of panels, however many you may run, and whatever you > run on them, is "kicker". The specific button you are referring to, > with the K on it, that contains the menu with all those entries, is the > "KMenu". KMenu is of course just one button out of all sorts of > buttons, applets, and additional extension panels, that is possible to > put in kicker. As it happens, the KMenu is one of several there by > default.
Understood. > >> it really sounds like something ate your configs. If we are still > >> talking about kicker, its config is in .kde/share/config/ called > >> kickerrc. > > > > Well this really is nuts - they're back! I was certain all the KDE > > apps had vanished when I first started posting various places on > > friday. Yesterday I was scratching my head thinking I'd lost my > > memory when the unused kde apps were back. Today, I return from work > > (having accessed via ssh again) and not only are they all back but so > > are the file associations. The most bizarre is rxvt - it has regained > > its arguments in kmenuedit. At least the kde apps were either there > > or not whereas rxvt has been "there a bit". > > Well, you /did/ say you were looking for an "automatic" way to get it > back. It just turned out more "automatic" than you expected! =8^) Of > course, the down side to that is that because it came back on its own, > you really can't be sure what caused it to disappear in the first > place. =8^( Yeah! It seemed complicated enough, especially with me not knowing the terminology, so I hadn't even bothered to mention that across that time the machine has both been powered up & powered off without either seemingly having an effect either way. In addition I fire up X manually and neither quitting it nor leaving it running seemed to be relevant. The apps just came back as & when they felt like it. > > Anyway, can you confirm it is kicker I'm describing or not please? > > While it's working I'd like to understand what the settings should be > > lest it happen again. > > Yes, it is, or rather, the KMenu is just one of the kicker applets. Cheers. If I can trouble you with a further question, within kickerrc [Kmenu] where do I go next to find its entries? > As for everything regaining all the arguments and file associations, > that's not entirely surprising, since KDE normally stores those as > attributes of the menu items in the KMenu. When you lost access to the > menu, KDE lost access to all its file associations and the like as > well. Whatever restored the menu therefore restored the file > associations, since they are stored in the same place. Understood. TIA Guy -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
