Re: [kde-linux] netscape runs 'twice' since kde2
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Alice M. Pinard wrote:
> > (sorry for xposting, but I'm torn as to whether this is likely a kde-ish
> > or debian-ish issue and figured I'd try two birds with one post)
> >
> > Ok, I use debian and the other day I was fixing broken/unhappy packages
> > leftover from an upgrade to woody and lo and behold once the package
> > rectifying was done (where 'done' = 'deselect stops complaining every
> > time I try to leave') I was now using kde2 instead of kde
> >
> > hmm... interesting...
> >
> > Now, since then, whenever I call up netscape I get it twice... ie, the
> > first thing I get is a little error message saying it's already
> > running... while deciding what to do about that, one netscape comes
> > up... if I say 'ok' to the error box I get a second set of netscape...
> >
> > other odd things I've noticed... if I say cancel at the error message and
> > use the first netscape to pop up, shockwave stuff doesn't work (dunno,
> > why, just noticed it happens) but if I say 'ok' and use the second
> > netscape after closing the first, the shockwave stuff works... but the one
> > I can't use shockwave stuff still reports to me that it has all the
> > plugins
> >
> > also... if I try and use help on the first netscape without first closing
> > the second netscape, kde/xwindows locks up
> >
> > as far as I can tell they're coming up the same version (4.77 en-20010326)
> >
> > I tried using kde's menu editor to look at the menu item I'm using
> > (almost positive it's a carryover from the menu item I added to the base
> > menu while using kde before I upgraded to 2) to confirm what executable
> > it's calling and all I can see is the first two lines.... name and
> > comment.... they're basically just the name of the icon... all other stuff
> > in the menu item except the icon is greyed out
> >
> >
> > anyways, does this sudden 'netscape showing up twice' thing ring any bells
> > for anyone.... when I do a 'which netscape' from the console I only see
> > one line, namely /usr/bin/X11/netscape
>
> Which only reports the first one it finds, but your problem isn't that
> you have two since it will use the first one it finds in the path.
>
> What is the file at: "/usr/bin/X11/netscape". I would suspect that it
> was a script.
>
> --
> JRT
>
yes, it is a script.... I finally found the file for that icon at
~/.kde/share/applnk/Netscape.kdelnk and discovered that there
/usr/local/netscape/netscape was being referenced (I think I recall that
being the answer to 'which netscape' a year or so ago) and I manually
editted the 'Exec=' line to read /usr/bin/X11/netscape instead
netscape now only runs once...
I still don't know why the menu editor didn't seem to have access to
any more than the name and comment fields... maybe something to do with
the menu item having originally been created in kde (as opposed to kde2)?
well, anyways, netscape works now, I'm happy :)
-Alice
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