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ganja_guru

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Registered: 2005-02-14

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kde menu & konqueror problem

ive tried installing both kde 3.3.2 and kde 3.4 beta 2(from tur's repo), but have the same problems:

1) no kmenu items
2) control centre doesnt work
3) konqueror is working only thru the command line with 'kfmclient openProfile filemanagement', but its not linked to  folders and such..
4) right clicking on my desktop to configure desktop doesnt work

so i guess this problem isnt just for kde 3.4 beta 2, but kde 3.3.2 even..

p.s - ive tried doing fresh installs, upgrades, removing everything with pacman -R kde and reinstalling, and most importantly searching this forum..please help...im just a day old with arch!

ganja_guru

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Registered: 2005-02-14

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Re: kde menu & konqueror problem

p.s - i never install kdepim, kdesdk, kdeedu ....just fyi..

IceRAM

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Registered: 2004-03-04

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Re: kde menu & konqueror problem

Try starting kontrol center from a konsole.
It should output something (like the reason for not starting).

Also, make sure you read this.

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IceRAM

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Registered: 2004-03-04

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Re: kde menu & konqueror problem

& check if XDG variables are set correctly.

# echo $XDG_
$XDG_CACHE_HOME   $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME  $XDG_DATA_DIRS    $XDG_DATA_HOME

That is the list you should try with "echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME" and so on.

Make sure you have /etc/profile.d/kde.sh with

# cat /etc/profile.d/kde.sh
export KDEDIR=/opt/kde
export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR:/usr
export PATH=$PATH:$KDEDIR/bin
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$KDEDIR/man
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$KDEDIR/lib/pkgconfig
if [ ! -z $XDG_DATA_DIRS ]; then
  export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:$KDEDIR/share
else
  export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$KDEDIR/share
fi
if [ ! -z $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS ]; then
  export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:$KDEDIR/etc/xdg
else
  export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$KDEDIR/etc/xdg
fi

Hope that helps...

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ganja_guru

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Registered: 2005-02-14

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Re: kde menu & konqueror problem

before i could do that i tried uninstalling xfce completely and kde completely...then ran an updatdb and removed every reference to both progs completely..now kde beta is working just fine...but 150 MB wasted on downloading old kde 3.3.2 thinking the beta was faulty.. :cry: ( i have a download limit)

i think this problem has something to do with the libxfce4util package...but the strange thing is i had that package installed ...http://www.archlinux.org/news.php#131 talks about the xfce problem
p.s i had tried the kde.sh suggestion before but it didnt work,,,didnt see this post fast enough to do the xdg thing

whatever it is...its good to have kde back!

thanks anyway 

IceRAM

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Re: kde menu & konqueror problem

Ok... so that's an XFCE problem (since it's resetting the XDG vars used also by KDE) - see bug below.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?id=2028&do=details

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Dreameen

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-09-06

Posts: 252

Re: kde menu & konqueror problem

Kde works fine:)

...but I cannot make any changes in the kde menu. Well, I can but after making my changes and saving, all the changes I've made are lost. So basically, no matter what I do, kde menu always has the same entries. Any clues?

IceRAM

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Re: kde menu & konqueror problem

Are you sure you choose "Save" from the "File" menu before exiting the Menu editor?

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