no context menus

[Kuba Serafinowski]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:10, Josh Stephenson <peterbuldge at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running Kubutu Lucid with KDE 4.5, QT 4.7 and Amarok 2.3.1.90.  For a few
> versions now I havent been able to get any file or context menus in amarok.
> Clicking on a file menu or right-clicking on something to get a context will
> sometimes give me split second flicker of something, then nothing at all, other
> times I simply get no response at all.  This behavior seems to come and go,
> sometimes, if Amarok has been open for a while, menus will just decide to
> start working but I have no idea what is changing.  Usually, though, I can't
> get any menus.

In openSUSE there was a problem in some apps from KDE 4.5 with context
menus, and I believe it was a bug in dbus, they incorporated a patch
to rpms and it disappeared. I bet that's your problem, though I have
no time to investigate, ask packagers if they patched dbus.
>
> A while back I decided to reinstall Amarok and see if I could pinpoint where
> the problem starts, It seems to be related to podcasts.  After a fresh
> install, the problem starts shortly after the first podcasts are added.
>
> None of the other apps I use regularly do this.  I prefer to have all the
> scanning (library, podcasts) turned off and update manually so this is
> essentially rendering Amarok unusabe for me.
>
> Anybody have any ideas how to fix it?
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