Problem running kcontrol from menu

[Ryan Daly]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 23:14 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Saturday 10 November 2007, Ryan Daly wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 21:49 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 
> > > Can you try with a totally new user account?
> >
> > Same symptom with a new user, too.
> 
> Grrr.
> 
> > Could it be something during compile time?
> 
> Unlikely.
> 
> Can you check if the kde-config command I wrote about earlier renders 
> different output when started from ALT+F2?
> 
> Like
> ALT+F2: kde-config --path xdgdata-apps > /tmp/kde-config.txt
> and then checking /tmp/kde-config.txt
> 
> I.e. checking if the KDE session has a different environment than when you are 
> in a shell inside the session.

Certainly.  I used the following script:

#!/bin/tcsh

tty > /tmp/kde-config.txt && kde-config --path xdgdata-apps
>> /tmp/kde-config.txt

Running this from within my KDE sessions yields:

daly at riddler <21#> cat /tmp/kde-config.txt 
/dev/pts/1
/home/daly/.local/share/applications/:/opt/kde/v3.5.7/share/applications/:/usr/local/share/applications/:/usr/share/applications/

Running this from ALT-F2 yields:

daly at riddler <22#> cat /tmp/kde-config.txt
/dev/tty2
/home/daly/.local/share/applications/:/opt/kde/v3.5.7/share/applications/:/usr/local/share/applications/:/usr/share/applications/

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