Guest JediToren Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 Mandrake 10.0 Official KDE 3.2 (up to date via Mandrake Update) KDE is regularly forgetting some custom file associations I set. I'm not sure where the defaults that it is is going back to are located, but every few days I have to fix them again. This is annoying. I've searched high and low for a solution to this and found two. One was to disable restore session in the KControl session manager. I did that, and the problem didn't go away. The other solution was to go to $HOME/.kde/share/applink-mdk/.hidden and disable write access to the .desktop file of the app you want, and to do this by changing ownership to root. I tried this and it screwed up my menu forcing me to run update-menu to restore it, plus only one of the apps I was looking for was there (BinkPlayer.desktop). Also, often when I go through and change menu settings I click "Apply" and the progress window will popup and instead of jumping to 100% it will advace all the way up to 100% % at a time. Once it gets to 100% it will start again, but slower this time. It keeps on doing this over and over again, getting slower each time until I hit cancel. The next time I try to update settings kcontrol just freezes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tymestream Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 I have had the same problem. I cannot seem to find any resources on the net regarding this issue. I hope someone here will be able to assist. If not, I will keep looking and post if I see anything of use. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tymestream Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Follow - Up: Found solution. Do not know why or how it works but it does. Set file associations as you want them and at the CLI run: kbuildsyscoca - noincremental Don't ask, I don't know. It has been working for me for a while now. By the way, if anyone knows what this command does - do tell. :D Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest micro420 Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 For me, if I LOG OUT, then it forgets the settings. So what I do is either leave my computer on so it won't forget file association settings, or, jus type 'poweroff' rather than log out. I find that logging out does some funky saving and not saving things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tymestream Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 For me, if I LOG OUT, then it forgets the settings. So what I do is either leave my computer on so it won't forget file association settings, or, jus type 'poweroff' rather than log out. I find that logging out does some funky saving and not saving things. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> While it is true that leaving the machine on is a work-around to the problem. My goal was to eliminate the problem.(even if I don't know exactly how I did it!). :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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