KDE Menu disappearing...
Hello all, Ok, this is getting weird now. First Mozilla refuses to work, anything Mozilla, mail, Firebird, Thunderbird, all just quit when trying to work in them. They open, but then disappear when trying to read mail or go to a url. Already did all the suggested fixes, without any success. Now, I have screwy things going on with the KDE menu. Anytime I add or delete or change something, the parts of the menu start to disappear! Under the heading Multimedia, there are normally about 10 submenu items, then several programs within each. Add a couple of things and bam everything under Multimedia disappears. Open the Menu Editor and the headings are still there, but all the items are gone. Relog into Root and everything is as it should be, no problems! What the heck is going on? I went back and read the mails about other menu problems and the kbuildsycoca thing doesn't help. I am updated to the kdelibs3 -38 build Philipp suggested, no help. Where are the menu entries now? SuSE has moved them, like they did with the gnome stuff and I can't find them to put the menu back to original condition. They use to reside in /home/<user>/.kde/share/applnks, but that doesn't seem to be the case any longer. Where are they and can this bug be fixed? HELP! :o) Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
I'm having the same problem, but with the Graphics menu. I'm haven't found a way to restore it either. alfredo On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 23:07, BandiPat wrote:
Hello all,
Ok, this is getting weird now. First Mozilla refuses to work, anything Mozilla, mail, Firebird, Thunderbird, all just quit when trying to work in them. They open, but then disappear when trying to read mail or go to a url. Already did all the suggested fixes, without any success.
Now, I have screwy things going on with the KDE menu. Anytime I add or delete or change something, the parts of the menu start to disappear! Under the heading Multimedia, there are normally about 10 submenu items, then several programs within each. Add a couple of things and bam everything under Multimedia disappears. Open the Menu Editor and the headings are still there, but all the items are gone. Relog into Root and everything is as it should be, no problems!
What the heck is going on? I went back and read the mails about other menu problems and the kbuildsycoca thing doesn't help. I am updated to the kdelibs3 -38 build Philipp suggested, no help.
Where are the menu entries now? SuSE has moved them, like they did with the gnome stuff and I can't find them to put the menu back to original condition. They use to reside in /home/<user>/.kde/share/applnks, but that doesn't seem to be the case any longer. Where are they and can this bug be fixed? HELP! :o)
Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange... -- Alfredo Yunes
On Monday 24 November 2003 10:07 pm, BandiPat wrote:
Hello all,
Ok, this is getting weird now. First Mozilla refuses to work, anything Mozilla, mail, Firebird, Thunderbird, all just quit when trying to work in them. They open, but then disappear when trying to read mail or go to a url. Already did all the suggested fixes, without any success.
Now, I have screwy things going on with the KDE menu. Anytime I add or delete or change something, the parts of the menu start to disappear! Under the heading Multimedia, there are normally about 10 submenu items, then several programs within each. Add a couple of things and bam everything under Multimedia disappears. Open the Menu Editor and the headings are still there, but all the items are gone. Relog into Root and everything is as it should be, no problems!
What the heck is going on? I went back and read the mails about other menu problems and the kbuildsycoca thing doesn't help. I am updated to the kdelibs3 -38 build Philipp suggested, no help.
Where are the menu entries now? SuSE has moved them, like they did with the gnome stuff and I can't find them to put the menu back to original condition. They use to reside in /home/<user>/.kde/share/applnks, but that doesn't seem to be the case any longer. Where are they and can this bug be fixed? HELP! :o)
Lee
I've also logged out of GUI, gone to console F1 and logged in as root, do an init 3 and deleted all the <userid> directories in /tmp. Do an init 5 and then logged into KDE/GNOME/whatever to get rid of all the lock files. My 9.0 Pro menu system seems to have stabilised now with the kdelibs3-38 and the kbuildsycoca thing too. Stan
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 09:18 am, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Monday 24 November 2003 10:07 pm, BandiPat wrote:
Hello all,
Now, I have screwy things going on with the KDE menu. Anytime I add or delete or change something, the parts of the menu start to disappear! Under the heading Multimedia, there are normally about 10 submenu items, then several programs within each. Add a couple of things and bam everything under Multimedia disappears. Open the Menu Editor and the headings are still there, but all the items are gone. Relog into Root and everything is as it should be, no problems! [...] Where are the menu entries now? SuSE has moved them, like they did with the gnome stuff and I can't find them to put the menu back to original condition. They use to reside in /home/<user>/.kde/share/applnks, but that doesn't seem to be the case any longer. Where are they and can this bug be fixed? HELP! :o)
Lee
I've also logged out of GUI, gone to console F1 and logged in as root, do an init 3 and deleted all the <userid> directories in /tmp. Do an init 5 and then logged into KDE/GNOME/whatever to get rid of all the lock files.
My 9.0 Pro menu system seems to have stabilised now with the kdelibs3-38 and the kbuildsycoca thing too.
Stan ===========
Ok, everyone to add a bit to this and maybe help others as well. After much tracking and torment, I have managed to find the new location for menu config. Stan, I don't think cleaning up /tmp would help anything, unless you were having other problems with KDE as well. It would be kinda foolish for SuSE to put a config file there anyway as /tmp gets cleaned out occasionally, right? ;o) Turns out they have moved this on us and it is now in your $HOME directory under the name .config! Remove that, restart KDE and you'll notice that your menu is brand new and working ok. I can add entries now and move others around, but still cannot add a new submenu heading or add to blank submenu headings already there. Otherwise it works fine! So, to summarize, your menu config file is no longer in the your /home/<user>/.kde directory with the other config files, it is located in .config now. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 5:37 pm, BandiPat wrote:
Ok, everyone to add a bit to this and maybe help others as well. After much tracking and torment, I have managed to find the new location for menu config. Stan, I don't think cleaning up /tmp would help anything, unless you were having other problems with KDE as well. It would be kinda foolish for SuSE to put a config file there anyway as /tmp gets cleaned out occasionally, right? ;o)
Turns out they have moved this on us and it is now in your $HOME directory under the name .config! Remove that, restart KDE and you'll notice that your menu is brand new and working ok. I can add entries now and move others around, but still cannot add a new submenu heading or add to blank submenu headings already there. Otherwise it works fine!
So, to summarize, your menu config file is no longer in the your /home/<user>/.kde directory with the other config files, it is located in .config now.
Lee --
Deleting /tmp entries isn't to get rid of bad config files. I do that to get rid of bad or stale lock files that apps set and maybe forget or maybe don't recycle properly. It'll cure the odd kdesu can't login as root problem or when KDE is totally wrapped around the axle and needs to be set free. When I've deleted the ~/.config directory to clear menus it didn't seem to have any effect on my menus. Hmmm. Haven't don it since the kdelibs-3 update and the kconfigsycoca fix. But I'll be trying it next tiem I log into KDE. Stan
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 13:46, Stan Glasoe wrote: <snip>
When I've deleted the ~/.config directory to clear menus it didn't seem to have any effect on my menus. Hmmm. Haven't don it since the kdelibs-3 update and the kconfigsycoca fix. But I'll be trying it next tiem I log into KDE.
What I found is that the content of ~./config/menus/ applications-kmenuedit.menu includes the items that I have manually deleted in the K Menu Editor. When that file is edited or deleted, the content is then available to the menu again. At least for me. Bernd -- "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de St. Exupery
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 15:07, BandiPat wrote:
Hello all,
Ok, this is getting weird now. First Mozilla refuses to work, anything Mozilla, mail, Firebird, Thunderbird, all just quit when trying to work in them. They open, but then disappear when trying to read mail or go to a url. Already did all the suggested fixes, without any success.
Now, I have screwy things going on with the KDE menu. Anytime I add or delete or change something, the parts of the menu start to disappear! Under the heading Multimedia, there are normally about 10 submenu items, then several programs within each. Add a couple of things and bam everything under Multimedia disappears. Open the Menu Editor and the headings are still there, but all the items are gone. Relog into Root and everything is as it should be, no problems!
What the heck is going on? I went back and read the mails about other menu problems and the kbuildsycoca thing doesn't help. I am updated to the kdelibs3 -38 build Philipp suggested, no help.
Where are the menu entries now? SuSE has moved them, like they did with the gnome stuff and I can't find them to put the menu back to original condition. They use to reside in /home/<user>/.kde/share/applnks, but that doesn't seem to be the case any longer. Where are they and can this bug be fixed? HELP! :o)
Lee
Yep, I've tried both those fixes and there are still n number of KDE menu entries that are not visible. It's so bad that I have just about stopped using the menu, which is a bit like push starting a Porsche. Dave -- Registered Linux User #288562 http://counter.li.org
participants (5)
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Alfredo Yunes
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BandiPat
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Bernd
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Dave Barton
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Stan Glasoe