KDE Control Center empty! [SOLVED]

[Guest]

same problem.. kcontrol empty.. i tried all the solutions but nothing happened.. do we have to wait for a solution or just come back to windows?

I had the same problem described. After reading this thread, I
noticed that I was missing the file:
etc/xdg/menus/kde-essential.menu
Checking another machine led me to creating this file
with the content below. Immediately kcontrol started
working.

John
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<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/me ... 0/menu.dtd">

<Menu>
<!-- The following menus are hidden by default -->
<Menu>
<Name>Settings</Name>
<Directory>kde-settings.directory</Directory>
<MergeFile>../kde-settings.menu</MergeFile>
</Menu>
<Menu>
<Name>Information</Name>
<Directory>kde-information.directory</Directory>
<MergeFile>../kde-information.menu</MergeFile>
</Menu>
<Move>
<Old>Settings/Information</Old><New>Information</New>
</Move>
<Menu>
<Name>System</Name>
<Menu>
<Name>ScreenSavers</Name>
<Directory>kde-system-screensavers.directory</Directory>
<MergeFile>../kde-screensavers.menu</MergeFile>
</Menu>
</Menu>
</Menu>

Hey i did the same thing what u did and restart the KDE but it is still not working ...

[numb]

here it comes..

just copy /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu to /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-applications-merged/
and you'll be fine

[quote="Anonymous"]same problem.. kcontrol empty.. i tried all the solutions but nothing happened.. do we have to wait for a solution or just come back to windows?

[numb]

sorry i meant
just copy /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu to /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/
and you'll be fine

same problem.. kcontrol empty.. i tried all the solutions but nothing happened.. do we have to wait for a solution or just come back to windows?

[tug]

Thanks numb,
Your tip worked for me

[Guest]

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ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged

Hey i am a new in Debian, but this terminal code didnt work for me! they are still in Lost&Found place, has someone another idea about this one? Or i must wait till they will fix this???

when i write the code it says!

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ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/applications-merged' to `/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged': File exists

and when i try to open kcontrol in Terminal i got this:

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Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kdeinit: Can't connect to the X Server.
kdeinit: Might not terminate at end of session.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kded: cannot connect to X server :0.0
kded: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Registering failed!
kded: ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kcontrol: cannot connect to X server :0.0
ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Registering failed!
ERROR: Communication problem with kcontrol, it probably crashed.

any more helps??

The kcontrol problem is nothing to do with the menus. The teminal is just unable to launch it in X. To launch an X application as root, use kdesu appname as normal user and a box will prompt for password.
As for the menus, did you run the ln command as root?
And do you have menu and menu-xdg installed?

[xmux]

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ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged

Hey i am a new in Debian, but this terminal code didnt work for me! they are still in Lost&Found place, has someone another idea about this one? Or i must wait till they will fix this???

when i write the code it says!

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ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/applications-merged' to `/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged': File exists

and when i try to open kcontrol in Terminal i got this:

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Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kdeinit: Can't connect to the X Server.
kdeinit: Might not terminate at end of session.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kded: cannot connect to X server :0.0
kded: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Registering failed!
kded: ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kcontrol: cannot connect to X server :0.0
ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Registering failed!
ERROR: Communication problem with kcontrol, it probably crashed.

any more helps??

The kcontrol problem is nothing to do with the menus. The teminal is just unable to launch it in X. To launch an X application as root, use kdesu appname as normal user and a box will prompt for password.
As for the menus, did you run the ln command as root?
And do you have menu and menu-xdg installed?

I did it in root, and i checked that i have menu and menu-xdg, both of them i have but its still not working...

[Guest]

I had the same problem with etch and kde3.5.5.
Try to do this
ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/kde-essential.menu

For me it works fine. Immediately without starting kde again.

Heinz

[xmux]

I had the same problem with etch and kde3.5.5.
Try to do this
ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/kde-essential.menu

For me it works fine. Immediately without starting kde again.

Heinz

Hey Thank you very much!! Its working Nice Job!!!

[scharkalvin]

Anonymous wrote:
I had the same problem with etch and kde3.5.5.
Try to do this
ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/kde-essential.menu

For me it works fine. Immediately without starting kde again.

Heinz

I just copied the file from one directory to the other. This also fixed the problem.

[joshinjay]

So I'm reading thoroughly what everyone has to say, as I know nothing and want to make sure i do this correct. I've tried everyones suggestions with out success, and it frustrated me, i figured it was lack of sleep but i delved further and discover this... according to my directory structure i made a symlink to an empty file called kde-essential.menu.
everyone has been saying to

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ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/kde-essential.menu 

well my issues is that I have no such file in /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/ or anywhere in my system(i tried to locate it), it only exist in the latter of the instructions because I created it, and so it is empty. Only thing in ./applications-merged is kde-multimedia-music.menu .

SO any suggestions as to how I can get this file i need so badly, as i'd like to custom this new KDE install, it's much too touchy. I only came back to KDE because after dist-upgrading to Etch, Gnome has been acting wierd, and i read that it's because it's incomplete, unless your using Sid(course i found out after the upgrade ::grumble:: ). Which packages have I forgotten to request from Apt?

[Guest]

well my issues is that I have no such file in /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/ or anywhere in my system(i tried to locate it), it only exist in the latter of the instructions because I created it, and so it is empty. Only thing in ./applications-merged is kde-multimedia-music.menu .

i had the same problem, it is supposed to be in kdebase-data, which i've tried to reinstall (apt-get --reinstall install kdebase-data) a number of times, but since it was never copied i just went to /var/cache/apt/archives and copied kde-essential.menu (using mc) by hand, after that it was just a matter of linking, like suggested in previous posts

[Firztspawn]

Try this (worked for me):
su to root in console,
then:

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mkdir /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged
cp /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/kde-essential.menu

Restart Kcontrol. All menus should be in place

[sunrat]

Try this (worked for me):
su to root in console,
then:

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mkdir /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged
cp /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged/kde-essential.menu

Restart Kcontrol. All menus should be in place

Worked great for me too. I had the problem originally after kde-something update. Fixed it with the symlink mentioned in the first post.
After today's xorg upgrade - same problem! Same fix didn't work but copying the file as above did the trick. The directory "kde-applications-merged" seems to be MIA so must be created. At least it's easy to fix.

[jmfv]

Hi

My 2 cents. Try to do run the following as root

mv /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged-old

and then

ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications-merged

Cheers

[joshinjay]

I appreciate the timely responses, but --reinstalling has not helped me... and the people who suggested the symlinks, again, it won't work because the file does not exist in my system. if someone can post a copy of thier kde-essentials.menu and i'll copy it into my empty one... or if someone can tell me how to manually pull it out of the kdebase-data.deb package without hosing my system, i'll do that. This is really frustrating, i've even tried remove kde kdebase and kdesktop and reinstalling.... but no changes whatsoever. I tried googling for the file also with no luck. thanks again for anyone who can set me off in the right direction.

[jmfv]

Did you install the menu and menu-xdg packages?

[sunrat]

Try

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update-menus

[havok1977]

I am having the same problem, and none of the solutions documented in this post have fixed it for me; is there anything else i should check?

Also my K Menu lost all of the Application shortcuts, i dont know if if is related to the kcontrol issue; but i havent found a solution for that either. When i try to rebuild it i get this:

dfuentes@raziel:~$ kbuildsycoca
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : media_realfolder.desktop
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: Load error ()
kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available!


WTH? Help, anyone?

[joshinjay]

I tried what you said JMFV, I have the newest version installed already and I tried "update-menus" sunrat... no such luck. I reported the bug to KDE, hopefully they'll gimme something I can use. I'll let you know what they suggest if anything.

[bluesdog]

Probably won't help, but what versions of kdelibs and kdebase do you have?