Viewing JPEGs in Konqueror
I have a strange problem. I'm sure I caused it, but don't know when or how. I can view jpegs using any of my viewers. I can view jpeg attachments with kmail. I can view jpegs within applications such as digikam, open office, or scribus. I can view jpegs with konqueror if I log in as root. I can no longer view jpegs with konqueror if I log in as user (normal login). I have looked at file associations and at the Konqueror preferences. All seem normal. Any ideas on how to fix this? Desperate Bill (SuSE 9.3, KDE 3.5)
On 15 Dec 2005, wshotts1@san.rr.com wrote:
I have looked at file associations and at the Konqueror preferences. All seem normal.
What is associated with jpeg in the "Embeding" tab of the file association dialog? Charles -- # Basic IBM dingbats, some of which will never have a purpose clear # to mankind linux-2.4.0/drivers/char/cp437.uni
On Thursday 15 December 2005 1:22 pm, Charles philip Chan wrote:
On 15 Dec 2005, wshotts1@san.rr.com wrote:
I have looked at file associations and at the Konqueror preferences. All seem normal.
What is associated with jpeg in the "Embeding" tab of the file association dialog?
Charles
Charles, "Embedding" is setup as "Use setting for 'image group'" The image group is setup as "Show file in embedded viewer" I have also tried changing the jpeg embedding to "Show file in embedded viewer" without any luck. My Services Preference Order is Gwenview, Embeddable Image Viewer, Viewer. Bill
On Thursday 15 December 2005 15:55, William E. Shotts wrote:
On Thursday 15 December 2005 1:22 pm, Charles philip Chan wrote:
On 15 Dec 2005, wshotts1@san.rr.com wrote:
I have looked at file associations and at the Konqueror preferences. All seem normal.
What is associated with jpeg in the "Embeding" tab of the file association dialog?
Charles
Charles, "Embedding" is setup as "Use setting for 'image group'"
The image group is setup as "Show file in embedded viewer"
I have also tried changing the jpeg embedding to "Show file in embedded viewer" without any luck.
My Services Preference Order is Gwenview, Embeddable Image Viewer, Viewer.
I have what may be the same problem. I've tried moving the preference order around. No change. I've switched among Embeddable Image Viewer and KView Image Viewer, and whatever else looked remotely useful. No change. Whenever I left-click a JPG icon or filename in Konq, the message is: "/home/<path>/somefile.jpg is a file, but a folder was expected." When I [OK] that, the file pane in Konq is empty until I click the back arrow, at which point the current-directory file-list (or icons or thumbnails.... whatever...) reappears. If the file is a png or gif, etc., it is immediately displayed in the embedded viewer... just not jpegs. I've had the problem for a couple of years and through four or five versions of SuSE (currently at 10.0). I can set up the previewer (where it looks similar to Gwenview, with the current image displayed in one pane and the thumbnails in another), and that works, but just having a regular two-pane Konq setup, with one pane being the navigation tree, and the other the file-list, gives the error message , followed by a blank pane, whenever I click a JPG. On another machine in the house (which has also had SuSE for a few years), there's no problem. A click on a .jpg displays it immediately within Konqueror. Other than browsing through the Configuration editor, hoping to stumble on what obscure setting is causing this, I have not expended a lot of effort, since it's a minor annoyance. I usually open GwenView right away. Still... it's an irritation. It would be nice to know what's wrong and how it got bent. Kevin
On Sunday 18 December 2005 2:35 pm, elefino wrote:
On Thursday 15 December 2005 15:55, William E. Shotts wrote:
On Thursday 15 December 2005 1:22 pm, Charles philip Chan wrote:
On 15 Dec 2005, wshotts1@san.rr.com wrote:
I have looked at file associations and at the Konqueror preferences. All seem normal.
What is associated with jpeg in the "Embeding" tab of the file association dialog?
Charles
Charles, "Embedding" is setup as "Use setting for 'image group'"
The image group is setup as "Show file in embedded viewer"
I have also tried changing the jpeg embedding to "Show file in embedded viewer" without any luck.
My Services Preference Order is Gwenview, Embeddable Image Viewer, Viewer.
I have what may be the same problem.
I've tried moving the preference order around. No change. I've switched among Embeddable Image Viewer and KView Image Viewer, and whatever else looked remotely useful. No change.
Whenever I left-click a JPG icon or filename in Konq, the message is:
"/home/<path>/somefile.jpg is a file, but a folder was expected." When I [OK] that, the file pane in Konq is empty until I click the back arrow, at which point the current-directory file-list (or icons or thumbnails.... whatever...) reappears.
If the file is a png or gif, etc., it is immediately displayed in the embedded viewer... just not jpegs. I've had the problem for a couple of years and through four or five versions of SuSE (currently at 10.0).
I can set up the previewer (where it looks similar to Gwenview, with the current image displayed in one pane and the thumbnails in another), and that works, but just having a regular two-pane Konq setup, with one pane being the navigation tree, and the other the file-list, gives the error message , followed by a blank pane, whenever I click a JPG.
On another machine in the house (which has also had SuSE for a few years), there's no problem. A click on a .jpg displays it immediately within Konqueror.
Other than browsing through the Configuration editor, hoping to stumble on what obscure setting is causing this, I have not expended a lot of effort, since it's a minor annoyance. I usually open GwenView right away. Still... it's an irritation. It would be nice to know what's wrong and how it got bent.
Kevin
Kevin, Thanks for letting me know I'm not crazy. For me, I've always been able to see jpegs, until recently. Your description of what is happening on your machine(s) sounds exactly like mine. The only other strange thing is that I can log into a session as root and all is fine. The latest strange thing I've noticed is that I can look at archived older emails that I created, and which had jpegs as attachments, and see the images just fine. My most recent emails (after the problem started) now show the same new behavior and I can only see the archived email images if I invoke a viewer like kviewer. Bill
On Sunday 18 December 2005 17:43, William E. Shotts wrote:
Thanks for letting me know I'm not crazy.
For me, I've always been able to see jpegs, until recently. Your description of what is happening on your machine(s) sounds exactly like mine.
Like I said, my "recently" was two or three years ago, but same idea. I screwed up some little setting at that time, and it's followed me through four or five new SuSE versions.
The only other strange thing is that I can log into a session as root and all is fine.
Same here.
This only confirms that it's a config setting for your (and my) regular
user. And since it is a user config, it gets preserved through
upgrades/installs, if you keep your /home.
Now, if somebody will just take pity on us and let us know _which_
obscure setting (or obscure combination of settings) is causing
the problem, we'll both be a little happier.
But don't get your hopes up. Like I say, it's been a couple of years
for me and I don't recall seeing the problem described by anybody
else, so you now have the distinction of being the second-ever dummy
in the SuSE fold.
Greeting'z, I had this problem a couple times before (not currently, tho), and I was able to fix it by either Clearing, or Increasing Konqueror's Cache ( Control Center > Internet & Network > Web Browser > Cache ) Hope this helps -- "NiTa Ek WeLu Ek Ra"
On Monday 19 December 2005 20:06, Zarantu wrote:
Greeting'z,
I had this problem a couple times before (not currently, tho), and I was able to fix it by either Clearing, or Increasing Konqueror's Cache ( Control Center > Internet & Network > Web Browser > Cache )
Hope this helps
-- "NiTa Ek WeLu Ek Ra"
I have had the same problem, and fixed it by checking file associations. Go to Configure Konqueror, then FILE ASSOCIATIONS, then SEARCH (dont use the menu to navigate, or you may miss some) - it turns out I had 4 different settings for jpg extension, so I deleted all of them except for jpeg, and like magic, it now works fine again. Hope that helps, H
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 5:01 am, Hamish wrote:
On Monday 19 December 2005 20:06, Zarantu wrote:
Greeting'z,
I had this problem a couple times before (not currently, tho), and I was able to fix it by either Clearing, or Increasing Konqueror's Cache ( Control Center > Internet & Network > Web Browser > Cache )
Hope this helps
-- "NiTa Ek WeLu Ek Ra"
I have had the same problem, and fixed it by checking file associations. Go to Configure Konqueror, then FILE ASSOCIATIONS, then SEARCH (dont use the menu to navigate, or you may miss some) - it turns out I had 4 different settings for jpg extension, so I deleted all of them except for jpeg, and like magic, it now works fine again. Hope that helps, H
Thanks, but it didn't work for me. It seems to be something centered around Gwenview. If I use Gwenview as an external or as an embedded viewer, it does not see jpegs. All other viewers do. Bill
I have had the same problem, and fixed it by checking file associations. Go to Configure Konqueror, then FILE ASSOCIATIONS, then SEARCH (dont use the menu to navigate, or you may miss some) - it turns out I had 4 different settings for jpg extension, so I deleted all of them except for jpeg, and like magic, it now works fine again. Hope that helps, H
Thanks. That solved my problem. Delete EVERY other entry for jpg and kepp only the image type. __________________________________________________ Χρησιμοποιείτε Yahoo!; Βαρεθήκατε τα ενοχλητικά μηνύματα (spam); Το Yahoo! Mail διαθέτει την καλύτερη δυνατή προστασία κατά των ενοχλητικών μηνυμάτων http://mail.yahoo.gr
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 7:54 am, Karaoulis Marios wrote:
I have had the same problem, and fixed it by checking file associations. Go to Configure Konqueror, then FILE ASSOCIATIONS, then SEARCH (dont use the menu to navigate, or you may miss some) - it turns out I had 4 different settings for jpg extension, so I deleted all of them except for jpeg, and like magic, it now works fine again. Hope that helps, H
Thanks. That solved my problem.
Delete EVERY other entry for jpg and kepp only the image type. __________________________________________________ Χρησιμοποιείτε Yahoo!; Βαρεθήκατε τα ενοχλητικά μηνύματα (spam); Το Yahoo! Mail διαθέτει την καλύτερη δυνατή προστασία κατά των ενοχλητικών μηνυμάτων http://mail.yahoo.gr
This solved my LONG STANDING problem as well. It turns out I had a "x-crossover-jpeg" association under "applications." Once this was removed, I could view all jpegs with Konqueror. Thanks for the insight. Bill
This solved my LONG STANDING problem as well. It turns out I had a "x-crossover-jpeg" association under "applications." Once this was removed, I could view all jpegs with Konqueror.
Thanks for the insight.
Bill
Now that i see more in depth, it seems that crossover f***ed all the system. I manually deleted all entry it entered. I made the mistake to install winrar with crossover and also Real Player for windows. I couldn't right click on a rar file and extract it somewhere. Also all media players played by default with Real Player (windows version). Crossover took the wrong path to expand it's software. Never again install the damn software ........ __________________________________________________ Χρησιμοποιείτε Yahoo!; Βαρεθήκατε τα ενοχλητικά μηνύματα (spam); Το Yahoo! Mail διαθέτει την καλύτερη δυνατή προστασία κατά των ενοχλητικών μηνυμάτων http://mail.yahoo.gr
Now that i see more in depth, it seems that crossover f***ed all the system.
Crossover took the wrong path to expand it's software. Never again install the damn software ........
You mean the codeweavers one? Works fine here. No jpeg in konqueror trouble either. I don't however have a use for realplayer in doze, nor Linux for that matter. You can btw change file associations in crossover too. Just make sure it doesn't grab any of the Linux ones, like jpeg or wav. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
On Monday 19 December 2005 12:06 pm, Zarantu wrote:
Greeting'z,
I had this problem a couple times before (not currently, tho), and I was able to fix it by either Clearing, or Increasing Konqueror's Cache ( Control Center > Internet & Network > Web Browser > Cache )
Hope this helps
-- "NiTa Ek WeLu Ek Ra"
Thanks for the input. Unfortunately no joy for me. Bill
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