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zwirbeltier
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 Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 12:03 pm Post subject: kmail not starting (plasma 5) |
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Since a few months I’m unable to start kmail from either the the menu or krunner (Plasma running on Wayland). When I try it, it starts loading but nothing else happens.
I am however able to start it using the a shell by just typing and letting it run there.
Has anyone else observed this problem? Any ideas how to fix it? |
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Goverp
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| Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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Try clicking RMB on the kmail entry in your start menu, and select "Edit application". Then look at the actual command issued (on the last page, IIRC); that will have some parameters passed to kmail. Then try running kmail from a terminal window using those parameters. With luck, you might get an error message (no promises!).
If that doesn't help, look at the KDE wayland terminal log file. If your displaymanager is SDDM, it will be somewhere under $HOME/.local/share/sddm, though I have yet to find anything useful there because of the high noise to signal ratio.
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zwirbeltier
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| Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2024 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the hint. I tried both things you suggested:
The command from the desktop file is | Code: | | kmail -qwindowtitle %c %u |
which for me translates to | Code: | | kmail -qwindowtitle KMail |
. This command opens the KMail window when I execute it from the shell.
~/.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log was entirely empty but I found something in the systemd journal.
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Jun 23 20:01:54 elodin krunner[365039]: kmail2: Missing value after '--view'.
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The desktop files provided by kmail are:
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/usr/share/applications/kmail_view.desktop # This is the one that’s seemingly used with the command: kmail --view %u
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kmail-refresh-settings.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.ktnef.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kmail2.desktop # This is the one from the above command that worked
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Why does krunner use one and not the other? |
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Goverp
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| Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2024 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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I can't help much more, I'm afraid. I noticed elsewhere that if you are using systemd you might see output in journalctl files. I don't use systemd, so I'd not come across this behaviour.
My menu uses the same KDE command to start kmail as you list above.
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Ralphred
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| Whenever I've had issues with kontact/kmail, akonadi has always been the issue. Does akonadiselftest (run from a terminal) show any issues? |
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