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ducks4rule

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Registered: 2024-03-11

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[solved] kitty uninstalled and KIO client still tries to open it

I used `kitty` as my terminal emulator for a while, ran into an issue and instead of fixing it I switched back to `konsole`. As a desktop environment I'm using KDE Plasma 6.1.1, hence konsole.

Now I have the following problem, whenever I try starting ranger, nvim, or any other terminal program over different means and not in konsole (like the start menu or when I try to open a '.txt' file from firefox), I get the following error:

> Terminal kitty not found while trying to run /usr/share/applications/nvim.desktop

The message comes from the 'KIO client'.

How can I change the KIO preferances to match the terminal emulator I have installed?

Last edited by ducks4rule (2024-07-16 13:20:57)

seth

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Re: [solved] kitty uninstalled and KIO client still tries to open it

system settings/default applications - this isn't really related to your kitty installation but KDE configuration.

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ducks4rule

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Re: [solved] kitty uninstalled and KIO client still tries to open it

I also think it is the KDE configuration interfering with other files. However the in 'system settings/default applictions' I already changed it back from kitty (which also doens't appear as an option anymore). The problem seems to be a bit more subtle. Any idea where I could look in order to find something?

For completeness here my default applications:
Text editor: neovim
file manager: ranger
terminal emulator: konsole

kocey

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Registered: 2024-07-15

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Re: [solved] kitty uninstalled and KIO client still tries to open it

What's the output of $TERM and $TERMINAL

Have you tried this?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xdg-utils#xdg-mime

I had this once and I just switched to another terminal other than Konsole in the default applications menu, opened something and then switched back to Konsole which did the trick. I am not sure if this was fixed as I did not look further into it..

ducks4rule

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Re: [solved] kitty uninstalled and KIO client still tries to open it

The outputs are:
$ echo $TERM
> xterm-256color
$ echo $TERMINAL
>

yes I tried setting it with xdg-mime however I don't want to set the default application for opening applications to konsole

Changing the default to xterm and then back to konsole did the trick. It is now opening terminal programs in konsole if I use the start menu. Thanks a lot.

The one thing that doesn't work however, is starting e.g. ranger with a shortcut. This still gives me the kitty error - no matter what terminal is the default.

seth

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Re: [solved] kitty uninstalled and KIO client still tries to open it

The shortcuts should™ be equivalent to the menu, have you tried to re-login?

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ducks4rule

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Re: [solved] kitty uninstalled and KIO client still tries to open it

Yes, the re-login solved it. Thanks for all your help