Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 21 September 2009, James wrote: > > any ideas? maybe you forgot CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y ? but you should really start with a diff of the configs.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 21. September 2009 schrieb James: > When I boot a newer kernel, either kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 > or kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 my kde [4] menu bar across the bottom > of the screen is gone. I still get a few kconsole sessions > that always start upon booting up, but all of the other kde >

[gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread James
Hello, What happens is when I boot up kernel-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 all the kde stuff (4.2.4) shows up. When I boot a newer kernel, either kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 or kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 my kde menu bar across the bottom of the screen is gone. I still get a few kconsole sessions that always start

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
090614 Tal2baro wrote: > I also had a problem with the KDE menu missing after the upgrade to 3.5.10 > I've investigated starting from the message from kbuildsycoca > & found there was nothing in ~/.config/menus/ expected by kbuildsyscoca > So I copied /usr/kde/3.5/etc/xdg/menus/ content to ~/

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-14 Thread Tal2baro
I also had a problem with the KDE menu missing after the upgrade to 3.5.10 I've investigated starting from the message form kbuildsycoca and found a solution to get the KDE menu to be build. I found that in ~/.config/menus/ nothing was there as expected by kbuildsyscoca So I did: Copy /usr/kde/3.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
090613 Philip Webb wrote: > It looks as if the problem here is that if 'kdeinit' is started > without an existing desktop to relate to, some connection is not made. I've investigated further & can't find which file Krusader uses to remember its file associations. However, I did find the changelog

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
090613 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote: >> Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least: >> (11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : "must be started by Kdeinit"; >> (12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal ; >> (13) reboot & restart FB but without 'kdein

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-13 Thread Mick
On Saturday 13 June 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 13 June 2009 11:33:56 Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > > > Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least: > > > (11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : "must be started by Kdeinit"; > > > (12

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 June 2009 11:33:56 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > > Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least: > > (11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : "must be started by Kdeinit"; > > (12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal ; > > (13) reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-13 Thread Mick
On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least: > (11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : "must be started by Kdeinit"; > (12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal ; > (13) reboot & restart FB but without 'kdeinit &' in ~/.xinitrc : >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-12 Thread Philip Webb
Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least: (11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : "must be started by Kdeinit"; (12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal ; (13) reboot & restart FB but without 'kdeinit &' in ~/.xinitrc : Krusader 'open with' ok ! So my problem seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-12 Thread Philip Webb
Further steps reveal something re the problem: (8) reboot: restart KDE: ok; (9) restart FB: Krusader 'open with' ok (yes, these repeat steps 6-7 in the previous msg); (10) reboot: restart FB : try Krusader: "Cannot talk to klauncher" ! (click to close msg box) when Krusader starts, 'open w

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-12 Thread Philip Webb
090612 Mick wrote: > I've rebooted twice with same kernel (gentoo-2.6.29-r5) > and the settings seem to have stuck. > Not sure what I've done differently before to cause the settings to be lost. No changes of kernel here (same as yours). I've experimented with the same experience as you : (1) (wi

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-11 Thread Mick
On Thursday 11 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090611 Philip Webb wrote: > > You can test this by restoring the settings in KDE, > > then without rebooting check they're there in Fluxbox, > > then reboot & see what has happened, presumably they wb lost again. > > Actually, there are 2 possibiliti

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-11 Thread Philip Webb
090611 Philip Webb wrote: > You can test this by restoring the settings in KDE, > then without rebooting check they're there in Fluxbox, > then reboot & see what has happened, presumably they wb lost again. Actually, there are 2 possibilities, at user login & at reboot, so both need checking sep

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-11 Thread Philip Webb
090611 Mick wrote: > I spoke too soon. > This morning same story ... Menus are not present and running > 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 Philip? > Were you able to make the changes st

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

2009-06-11 Thread Mick
2009/6/9 Mick : > 2009/6/9 Mick : >> 2009/6/9 Philip Webb : >> >>> 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 &

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

2009-06-09 Thread Mick
2009/6/9 Mick : > 2009/6/9 Philip Webb : > >> 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 vani

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

2009-06-09 Thread Mick
2009/6/9 Philip Webb : > 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

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

2009-06-09 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Philip Webb wrote: > 090608 Mick wrote: >> I seem to have installed kde-base/mimelib, I guess as dependency: >> kde-base/mimelib >> Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(20:11:53 06/07/09)(-debug -elibc_FreeBSD) >> I also tried changing fluxbox for kdm (in case this is a fluxbox WM issue) >> an

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090608 Mick wrote: > > I seem to have installed kde-base/mimelib, I guess as dependency: > > kde-base/mimelib > > Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(20:11:53 06/07/09)(-debug > > -elibc_FreeBSD) I also tried changing fluxbox for kdm (in case this is a >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Mick wrote: > I seem to have installed kde-base/mimelib, I guess as dependency: > kde-base/mimelib > Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(20:11:53 06/07/09)(-debug -elibc_FreeBSD) > I also tried changing fluxbox for kdm (in case this is a fluxbox WM issue) > and restarted X with kdm. Ran kbui

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090608 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > are you missing mimelib > > Yes, in fact I've never heard of it before. > Has it suddenly become necessary with the latest KDE 3.5.10 ? > > > have you updated from monolithic to split - and missed a couple of > > pa

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > are you missing mimelib Yes, in fact I've never heard of it before. Has it suddenly become necessary with the latest KDE 3.5.10 ? > have you updated from monolithic to split - and missed a couple of packages? Not here. -- ,,=

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 08 Juni 2009, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Can't recall if anyone else posted on this. Just updated my KDE to > the latest 3.5.10 and discovered that there is no KDE menu! This > means no KDE applications menu, as well as no menu on the left hand > pane when I run kcontrol from a terminal:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
2009/6/8 Cristian Gary : >  Run in konsole  kde 4.2  , "  bash$  kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental"   with > this you force the rebuild of kde menu. Thank you both. I am still running kde-3.5.10 so I ran: $ kbuildsycoca --noincremental Warning: kbuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Cristian Gary wrote: > 2009/6/8 Philip Webb >> 090608 Mick wrote: >>> The problem remains with most menus and submenus in KDE applications: >>> e.g. right-click on a file in Konqueror, then 'Open With' >>> and there are no applications in the popup to select from . >> Yes, that reminds me t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Cristian Gary
Run in konsole kde 4.2 , " bash$ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental" with this you force the rebuild of kde menu. Saludos. 2009/6/8 Philip Webb > 090608 Mick wrote: > > I noticed 'konqueror' works fine, so I changed the FB menu accordingly. > > Apwal looks cool, I will give it a spin, > > tho

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Mick wrote: > I noticed 'konqueror' works fine, so I changed the FB menu accordingly. > Apwal looks cool, I will give it a spin, > though I am conditioned to years of using the FB right-click menu. I have L-mouse = Apwal & R-mouse = FB menu : in ~/.fluxbox/init : OnDesktop Mouse1 :Exec

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
2009/6/8 Philip Webb : > 090608 Mick wrote: >> Just updated my KDE to the latest 3.5.10 and discovered >> there is no KDE menu!  This means no KDE applications menu, >> & no menu on the left hand pane when I run kcontrol from a terminal: >>   kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Mick wrote: > Just updated my KDE to the latest 3.5.10 and discovered > there is no KDE menu! This means no KDE applications menu, > & no menu on the left hand pane when I run kcontrol from a terminal: > kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found! > Defaultin

[gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
Hi All, Can't recall if anyone else posted on this. Just updated my KDE to the latest 3.5.10 and discovered that there is no KDE menu! This means no KDE applications menu, as well as no menu on the left hand pane when I run kcontrol from a terminal: kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE