On 19/09/12 00:32, Lisi wrote:
On Tuesday 18 September 2012 15:20:19 Lisi wrote:
I had an apparently working system, so I decided to take a deep breath, cross my fingers and install Slávek's patches. All appeared to go swimmingly. But now if I try to launch almost anything via Klauncher I get the message above.
These applications won't launch from the menu either, thus redering the computer almost totally useless.
Have you tried launching them from the command line? Assuming you can get a terminal to open. Try
KDE Menu > Run Command > xterm
Some six months ago or so, I had something go wrong with my KDE 3.5.4 installation where I could not launch any KDE or Gnome applications. Basic XWindows apps would launch.
The cursor would change to the bouncing ball, bounce for a few seconds, then nothing. There were no obvious errors either printed to std out at the terminal, or logged. I didn't want to reboot, because I had some applications already running and didn't want to risk ending up with nothing at all.
Eventually I fixed it by renaming or deleting the dot-files in my home directory and letting them be recreated. I don't know which dot-file did the trick, but I think it may have been font related. Start with your .kde and .qt directories, then anything to do with fonts, and then work your way through everything else. Purely shell-related dot-files like .bashrc can be left alone.