View source in Konqueror

[David Faure]

On Monday 07 January 2008, reader at newsguy.com wrote:
> Setup: Gentoo linux
>        kde-3.5-8 desktop
> 
> 
> Its hard to tell where to post this question..  Looking on the
> gmane.org server for kde and I see dozens of groups.
> 
> some one was kind enough to point me here
> 
> If this is the wrong place please point where I should take this.
> 
> In the Kcontrol settings:
> KDE components/File Associatinos/text/plain
>   No matter which one I choose (emacs, kwrite,kate)
> When I restart konq and try to view source... I just get the bouncing
> cursor that eventually times out but nothing ever comes up.
Does kwrite start OK if you launch it separately?

> I tried putting the absolute path in the dialog but it acts no
> different.  Can anyone advise me how to further debug this?
Watch ~/.xsession-errors (on most linux distros) for errors coming from the launching of kwrite.

Maybe klauncher is dead - tried restarting KDE, just in case?

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).