programs not showing up

skippuff54 · 04-19-2004, 04:37 PM

i try to start programs (konqueror, mozilla, kwrite, anything) and it pauses for a few seconds, shows a bar on the taskbar like it's going to open, then that bar disappears and nothing has happened. what am i doing wrong

jailbait · 04-19-2004, 07:46 PM

"i try to start programs (konqueror, mozilla, kwrite, anything) and it pauses for a few seconds, shows a bar on the taskbar like it's going to open, then that bar disappears and nothing has happened. what am i doing wrong"

If you can open a terminal then try starting these programs from the command line. They won't work from the command line either but you should get a meaningful error message.

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D. Sappointed · 06-16-2004, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jailbait
>If you can open a terminal then try starting these programs from the command line. They won't work from the >command line either but you should get a meaningful error message.

Wow , great-- that is exactly what I look for in an OS. [rofl]
Makes me wonder why I should ever change from Windows to Linux then !

Yours truly,

D. Sappointed

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XavierP · 06-17-2004, 04:07 AM

D. Sappointed - that has got to be the most unhelpful post ever. Jailbait's advice was good - starting the program from a command line will give a meaningful error message and will enable us to see at what point the programs are failing and what they are missing.

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