On Wednesday 04 November 2020 12:12:59 pm Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:

On Wed November 4 2020 08:45:20 Michael via tde-users wrote:

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This started a week or two ago it seems, definitely before 14.0.9. I do remember getting something very occasionally that was similar, but a logout/login would clear it up.

Now it’s happening every time I launch KMail.

Click KMail button in panel:

“nice -n 2 kmail -caption "%c" %i %m”

:Pop-Up:

Sorry - Kicker TDEInit cannot launch ‘nice’.

But KMail is nice’d and seem to be working the same as always.

michael@local [~]# pss kmail NI TIME SZ COMMAND 2 00:00:40 215388 kmail -caption KMail -icon kmail -miniicon kmail

Works for me if I prefix nice -n 2 to my kmail menu button in Debian Buster with TDE R14.0.9.

Doh! Found it though the questions you asked. (below for posterity)

Attempting to stop KMail from hanging I had changed:

Properties for KMail (Kicker) Application Advanced Options DCOP registration: {to Multiple Instances}

Changing DCOP back to ‘Run Until Finished’ stopped the pop-up.

Thank you!

Best, Michael

What happens if you run konsole (as you, not root) and do “nice -n 2 kmail -caption "%c" %i %m” without the outer quotes?

I should have thought of that :(

michael@local [~/data/trash]# nice -n 2 kmail -caption "%c" %i %m [TDE NM Backend ERROR] [/build/tdelibs-trinity-L9cG7r/tdelibs-trinity-14.0.9/tdecore/tdehw/networkbackends/network-manager/network-manager.cpp:1706] Attempting to access the network-manager VPN service returned: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.VPN.Plugin was not provided by any .service files WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 1) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 3) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 2) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 4) suspended.

Oddly it just brings up Composer with no KMail main window. %i and %m are in the first two To: lines.

michael@local [~/data/trash]# nice -n 2 kmail -caption "%c"

brings up only the main window.

Neither throw the PopUp.

Also which distro and version are you running?

MX-19 "Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" Linux anon 4.19.0-12-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.152-1 (2020-10-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux

If Debian or a derivative please: $ echo $PATH $ apt-cache policy coreutils $ debsums coreutils | grep nice

michael@local [~/data/trash]# echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/opt/trinity/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/opt/trinity/games:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/michael/common/bin michael@local [~/data/trash]# apt-cache policy coreutils coreutils: Installed: 8.30-3 Candidate: 8.30-3 Version table: *** 8.30-3 500 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status michael@local [~/data/trash]# debsums coreutils | grep nice /usr/bin/nice OK debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS.Debian.gz (from coreutils package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS.gz (from coreutils package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/coreutils/README.gz (from coreutils package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/coreutils/THANKS.gz (from coreutils package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/coreutils/TODO.gz (from coreutils package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/coreutils/changelog.Debian.gz (from coreutils package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/coreutils/changelog.gz (from coreutils package) /usr/share/man/man1/nice.1.gz OK