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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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[SOLVED] Firefox isn't seen by KDE or E17 anymore

Sometime in the last few weeks, Firefox became "invisible" to KDE and E17 on my 64 bit box. It's icon has disappeared on both setups, as well as the 'Open with Firefox' option in Konqueror. E17 won't even allow me to assign it an icon anymore, but I think that may just be E17. I rebuilt Firefox from ABS hoping that it would replace the 'desktop' file to no avail. Is anyone else seeing this?

Last edited by skottish (2007-08-18 22:58:13)

ahaslam

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Registered: 2007-05-11

Posts: 119

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox isn't seen by KDE or E17 anymore

Similar problem here with XFCE on a fresh install of Don't Panic x64. Installing Firefox & Thunderbird doesn't create menu entries & trying 'firefox' from the terminal doesn't work. I had to use the full '/opt/mozilla/...' path. I assume I'll have to make my own .desktop files.

Gilneas

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 320

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox isn't seen by KDE or E17 anymore

trying 'firefox' from the terminal doesn't work. I had to use the full '/opt/mozilla/...' path

Sounds like /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh isn't getting loaded.

ahaslam

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Registered: 2007-05-11

Posts: 119

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox isn't seen by KDE or E17 anymore

Running that script made no difference. Symbolically linking the mozilla app's to /usr/bin/ solved the terminal issue, but I still can't get them in my menu. With my sym-links, the .desktop files are now correct & should work. I was hoping to hit 2 birds with 1 stone.

hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox isn't seen by KDE or E17 anymore

could you post the output of
[0]alcachofa hacosta # pacman -Ql firefox|grep bin && echo $PATH

ahaslam

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Registered: 2007-05-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox isn't seen by KDE or E17 anymore

[root@voodoo ~]# pacman -Ql firefox|grep bin && echo $PATH
firefox /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox
firefox /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox-config
firefox /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/firefox-bin
firefox /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/libgtkxtbin.so
firefox /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.6/res/html/gopher-binary.gif
/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/mozilla/bin
[root@voodoo ~]#

PS, Menu entry's have now appeared... All I've done since is install libvorbis, curl, alsa-lib, alsa-utils & xarchiver
I think my host name sums it up...

Last edited by ahaslam (2007-08-18 21:15:06)

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox isn't seen by KDE or E17 anymore

Cool. I just solved the problem from the original post. I simply deleted ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop, and now everything is normal. I guess the local desktop file became corrupted, but the default one works properly.

Last edited by skottish (2007-08-18 22:57:53)

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox isn't seen by KDE or E17 anymore

I thought firefox was going in /usr now instead of /opt. Did I imagine this?

// scratches head.... 0o0

ekerazha

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 290

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox isn't seen by KDE or E17 anymore

Similar problem here with XFCE on a fresh install of Don't Panic x64. Installing Firefox & Thunderbird doesn't create menu entries & trying 'firefox' from the terminal doesn't work. I had to use the full '/opt/mozilla/...' path. I assume I'll have to make my own .desktop files.

I have this same issue (on i686) and I can't solve it. I'll try with the symlink, however this should be definitely fixed...

Last edited by ekerazha (2007-08-22 16:16:29)

ekerazha

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 290

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox isn't seen by KDE or E17 anymore

Bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7875

ekerazha

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 290

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox isn't seen by KDE or E17 anymore

Logging-out and logging-in after the installation "fixed" the "path bug" (now I can start Firefox typing "firefox"), HOWEVER the "menu entries" bug is still here.