On Thursday 18 December 2003 09:20 am, BandiPat wrote:

Hi all,

Here is a problem, I would like for you to put some thought into! I can't seem to start KWord now. All the other modules/parts work nicely, but not KWord. I can start KOffice, but if trying to open a kword doc, it fails. Here is the error from a konsole attempt:

koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in kword's desktop file. Check your installation !

I get this same problem from the orginal koffice files from the SuSE 9.0 and the newer updated 1.2.93 files. I have recompiled from src and do notice that the kofficecore is built correctly. I can start and operate KWord as root without problems, so it appears that the problem lies in my user account.

Any thoughts? ===============

Yes, replying to my own mail, but didn't want you guys or gals exerting brain power over something I have already fixed. Seems my user was the only one this kword starting problem affected, so I went searching. Using the error message helped in leading me to the culprit that was causing my problem. Located the errant kword desktop file in ~/.local/share/appplications directory. Seems the menu items there have a very lasting affect on other things too! Removed the kde-kword.desktop file in that directory and kword is happy again. Thanks for any thoughts, Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...