On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:39:42 -0400 Jim via tde-devels <devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 19:00 (+0100), Slávek Banko via tde-devels wrote: > > > On Wednesday 13 of January 2021 18:42:12 Jim via tde-devels wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 17:36 (+0100), Slávek Banko via tde-devels > > wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 13 of January 2021 16:49:00 Jim via tde-devels wrote: > >>>> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION which may or may not help: > >>>> When I start up kcontrol, the pane on the left which should have all > >>>> sort of things (in an older version of TFE on another computer I have > >>>> "Appearance & Themes", "Desktop", "Internet & Network", and so on) > >>>> is empty.  So, again, it can't find whatever it is looking for. > > >>>> According to the output of an incantation I found on line, there are > >>>> 1037 packages with "trinity" in the name which I have not (yet) > >>>> installed. I guess I could just bite the bullet and start randomly > >>>> installing things, but if anyone can share some wisdom, it would be > >>>> most appreciated. > > >>> Are you running a full TDE session or just a single application? > > >> Just a single application korganizer (of course, running korganizer > >> starts some of its friends, such as artsd and korgac and dcopserver > >> and knotify and kded and tdeinit and tdelauncher and tdeio_file). > > >> At this point, korganizer seems to be working fine, with the exception > >> that I can't configure a few things related to date and time. > > >> ____________________________________________________ > > > Ok, I thought so, that explains it. There is a problem that when > > used without a full session, windows like kcontrol do not work > > properly. Unfortunately, the cause of this problem has not yet been > > traced. > > OK, thanks for that information. > > > Can you try it in a full TDE session? > > Yes, as described above, if by "full session" we mean do both > -> use tdm display manager > and > -> start TDE session > then it works. > > > Given my "essentially nil" understanding of the code base, I don't > know if I can be much help tracking this down, but if you want me to > give something a try, just let me know. If I try to bring up kcontrol when su'd to root inside a konsole window, I get a blank left panel in kcontrol and the following: ryu ~ # kcontrol [tdebuildsycoca] tdebuildsycoca running... [2021/01/14 15:52:02.413] [dcopserver] DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. [2021/01/14 15:52:02.451] [kcontrol] WARNING: No TDE menu group with X-TDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ The left panel is populated if I open kcontrol from the command line as the logged-in user, and the buildsycoca, DCOP, and warning messages are not printed. So the problem is either something DCOPish, or something to do with that warning message. Probably. Jim, can you test to see if you get the same messages, so we can make sure I'm not conflating two different problems? E. Liddell ____________________________________________________ tde-devels mailing list -- devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devels-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
