On Saturday 05 Mar 2005 14:19, et wrote:
On Saturday 05 March 2005 09:13 am, Ian wrote:
One of my mates is getting really cheesed off with XP .......go figure :-) I told him how much nicer, safer etc etc Mandrake is. I installed 10.1 official on a partition on his slave drive. Konqueror won't open, and MCC is taking ages as well.....yet starting from root is fine. I know I read it somewhere on this list. Anyone care to remind me what the solution is?
Konqueror won't open on a fresh new install? or has he had a week to muck about?
Yeah, it was a fresh install. no, I installed it and then logged in and tried to start Konqueror. It didn't start.......either in file manger mode or as a browser.
when you say "starting from root" are you speaking about starting X from root? starting mcc from a command line root? how about what errors you get starting what ever doesn't start, if you try to start it from a command line.
Logged out, restarted the computer (windoze habits die hard), logged in as root. Konqueror started as web browser immediately. Logged out and logged back in to his account, same as before. My excuse is it was late, and I had to leave at this point. He won't go near it, so it will be the same when I go back. I'm hoping someone can tell me the steps to take before I do go back :-)
I'll try starting it from bash next time. Hopefully this will shed some light on the error. I didn't even configure his router last night.
Ian; If I remember correctly, the problem is due to a minor bug having to do with Konqueror profiles for the regular users. If you open konqueror as a normal user (open a terminal or console to do it, typing the command 'konqueror' - without the quotes), konqueror will open.
Once you've got it open, go to Settings>Configure View Profiles, and find the profile called "File Management". change the name of it to
"filemanagement" and save it. Close Konqueror and re-open it using the "Home" icon on your desktop.
If the web-browser version of Konqueror gives you the same problem, repeat these steps, changing "Web Browsing" to "webbrowsing" and save the profile again.
It would seem that the desktop and taskbar icons aren't willing to play nice because of these minor differences in profile syntax.
It's a very minor bug and I'm sure someone will catch it in the near future but for now, that's all you should need to do.
HTH's.
-- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712
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