On Saturday 15 November 2003 03:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know if I have a bad install or if I'm missing something in the > setup of 9.2: > > 1. The four icons on the initial desktop: 'CD-ROM', 'Floppy', 'Trash' > and 'Home' don't link to anything. I can click all day and nothing > happens. I was able to get Nautilus and bring it to the desktop and > that at least, works. > 2. I found what appears to be the KDE Control Center under 'Special > Buttons" on the lower task bar, but that doesn't seem to link to > anything either. The control center doesn't show up anywhere else that > I can find. > 3. I don't have any sound, but that was also a problem with 9.1 on this > laptop. > 4. The list of applications available is pretty slim, there isn't even > a browser listed anywhere. > > Is anyone else having this much trouble with 9.2? Am I faced with a new > install from scratch / > > Rich Try running 'update-menus -v' as root and see if that solves the problem. I have had this happen to me and updating the menus solved the problem. Also, have you applied any of the updates yet. The updates fixes a lot of little niggles.
I clicked on the 'Home' icon that's in the K-menu in the lower left corner and Konqueror popped up! not only that, but all of the icons now work,including the KDE control panel. Somethn' was stuck!
Rich
