[Novalug] Was: Suse 10.2 Konsole help: menu bar not shown Now: Dazed and Confused

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Wed Jan 10 21:12:40 EST 2007


totally confused now.

Rebooted box, and now all my online installation sources are back.

What the S(F#KE*D.

Jay

> Man, JUST figured this out.
>
> Ok, I was really running the xterm program, and not a konsole xterm.
>
> That is why I didn't have menus, and couldn't do anything.
>
> Once I figured this out and switched over, all is well.
>
> Now, just need to straighten out my installation sources. I lost the online
> sources from the YAST app, and have to re-create them.
>
> Jay
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>> Jay Hart wrote:
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>>> Right clicking in the konsole area of the "konsole" gets me, nothing.
>>> Nothing happens, sorry to say.
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>>      Really?  Strange.  In my SuSE Linux 10.0, I get a menu that lets
>> one show Konsole's menu bar:
>>
>> <http://www.TheMoreIKnow.info/DeleteAfter_2007-01-13/konsole_show-menu.jpg>
>>
>>      Looking through my Konsole's configuration, I see one can create
>> keyboard shortcuts.  Mine came with the default shortcut of Ctrl-Alt-M to
>> activate the menus.  (I.e. to use the keyboard to navigate the menus
>> much like Alt-F would drop down the File menu on a Window machine's
>> Microsoft Word.)  Does Ctrl-Alt-M do anything for you?
>>
>>      Sadly, I'm not sure if that shortcut will help you too much.  When
>> I hide my menu tool bar and then use Ctrl-Alt-M, I can access the menus
>> but I cannot change the menu tool bar to again be permanently shown.  I
>> can apparently only do that by right-clicking in the console (text) area
>> to bring up the menu as I show in the URL my screen capture above.
>>      Oh!  Once you get the menu tool bar by using Ctrl-Alt-M, you can
>> then create a keyboard shortcut (Settings --> Configure Shortcuts...)
>> to show the menu bar!
>>
>>      If push comes to shove, I guess you could explore the configuration
>> file for Konsole.  I believe it is stored in
>> $HOME/.kde/share/apps/konsole/profiles.  You could always move the
>> $HOME/.kde/share/apps/konsole directory off somewhere and then start
>> Konsole -- that should recreate $HOME/.kde/share/apps/konsole with the
>> system defaults.  (Ideally, the default would be to have the menu bar
>> visable.)
>>
>> - --
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