[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

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

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: 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

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 !

2009-06-13 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 !

2009-06-13 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 restart

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) restart in

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 'kdeinit ' in

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 !

2009-06-12 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 possibilities, at

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) (with

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

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 lie

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

2009-06-11 Thread Mick
2009/6/9 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: 2009/6/9 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: 2009/6/9 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: 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  

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 stick?

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

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: eix 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

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

2009-06-09 Thread Mick
2009/6/9 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: 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.

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

2009-06-09 Thread Mick
2009/6/9 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: 2009/6/9 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: 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

[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

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! Defaulting to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
2009/6/8 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: 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

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 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 purs...@ca.inter.net 090608 Mick wrote: I noticed 'konqueror' works fine, so I changed the FB menu accordingly. Apwal looks cool, I will give it a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Cristian Gary wrote: 2009/6/8 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net 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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
2009/6/8 Cristian Gary cristiang...@gmail.com:  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

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 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 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 packages?

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: eix 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

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: eix 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

[gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, First I'm running ~x86 with the Xeffects overlay (Beryl- on nvidia). When doing a emerge -uDNav world, I had missed that the kdelibs-3.5.6-r7 being updated was from portage instead of from the xeffects overlay. This caused kicker to crash first time I'd clicked on an icon. OK, no

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 30 Apr 2007 10:57:08 pm Roy Wright wrote: Is this clashing of menu structures normal between window managers? If so, any tools for backing up the menu structure? Or a way to tell gnome to use kde menu structure? I can't help much as I don't run GNOME along with KDE but this menu

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Roy Wright: Is there any way to recover? Or do I just have to take the hour or two and recreate my menu structure? Perhaps try kappfinder...or perhaps use the desktop settings wizard to change back to default state if kappfinder doesn't work. Is this clashing of menu structures

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread Elias Probst
On Monday 30 April 2007 23:18:00 darren kirby wrote: quoth the Roy Wright: Also I don't understand how or where the menu structure is defined on disk. Any good references? Have a look in ~/.kde/share/applnk Take also a look at ~/.local/share/applnk Regards, Elias P. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:00:18 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Or you can use quickpkg to make binary tarballs of the KDE packages, and then re-install from those, which will fix the mtime/md5 sums in the package database to match what you changed. According to the manpage for qcheck, part of

[gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Leonardo
Hi list, I'm using gentoo since some months now, and I have to say that I really start to like it, especially the possibility of customizing and deciding how to 'create' your system. On the 'not so happy' side I think I have found only minor things; the biggest point is I don't have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Philip Webb
060721 Leonardo wrote: I'm using gentoo since some months now and I have to say that I really start to like it ... , Did it take you that long (grin) ? esp the possibility of customizing your system. Yes, that's what Gentoo is largely about living at the cutting edge. On the 'not so

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Leonardo
--- Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 060721 Leonardo wrote: I'm using gentoo since some months now and I have to say that I really start to like it ... , Did it take you that long (grin) ? Haha. I think installing Gentoo takes forever. When it looks ok, I start thinking how to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Philip Webb
060721 Leonardo wrote: 'Till some months ago at home, and at work I was/am using Mandriva; when I urpmi a package there, it goes automatically in the kde menu. Isn't there a similar way of doing it in Gentoo, That's what should happen with a KDE app on Gentoo. It should be a function of KDE,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Leonardo wrote: I knew Kmenuedit already, but I have way too many apps to loose time reorganizing the menu going after them one by one. So many apps!? But you do this only once, you never reinstall KDE or Gentoo, the customized menus stay with you forever. But good apps _do_ add themselves

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Benno Schulenberg schrieb: But good apps _do_ add themselves to the menus, if they contain a .desktop file that goes into /usr/share/applications/ . If your favourite apps don't do this, report a bug to them, upstream. IMO that's one of the weakpoints of Gentoo. Other distributions, like

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Freitag, 21. Juli 2006 22:57 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: But good apps _do_ add themselves to the menus, if they contain a .desktop file that goes into /usr/share/applications/ . If your favourite apps don't do this, report a bug to them, upstream. Is this also true for games? I know quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:17:55 +0200, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: Is this also true for games? I know quite a few games which haven't got their own .desktop files, like torcs, ace of penguins and gl-117. File bugs for them. -- Neil Bothwick Gotta run, cat's caught in the printer...

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Roy Wright
Benno Schulenberg wrote: But good apps _do_ add themselves to the menus, if they contain a .desktop file that goes into /usr/share/applications/ . If your favourite apps don't do this, report a bug to them, upstream. What I'd really love would be for the ebuild to elog which menu folder

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu

2006-07-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/21/06, Leonardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the 'not so happy' side I think I have found only minor things; the biggest point is I don't have a 'consistent' kde menu: I think you will find that Gentoo follows the $upstream releases much more closely than other distributions... some