Hi guys,

A few days ago I wanted to open a file, that had Kate as the default associated application, in Kwrite. So I chose "Open With..." I did a mistake and wrote "Kwrtie". It could not find the program of course, I think I did the mistake 2 or 3 times that day. Now whenever I want to open a program with Kwrite and I do use again "Open With..." and type in "Kwrite" correctly, not misspelled this time, KDE pops me the following error:

It seems KDE links "kwrite" to "kwrtie".

I have checked in KDE Configuration the file associations and everywhere I found Kwrite it's written correctly and points to the right binary. I have checked the "ALL" file association type and this one has no application listed.

So I cannot find where in KDE the code kept in memory "kwrtie"!

I am sure it is super easy to fix, but I just could not find where, neither could I found something on the web similar to this (what to search for is not easy as I do not know how to describe the problem in a few words).

Anyone has an idea?

tnx!

Try looking in the folder ~/.local/share/applications maybe you'll find there a wrong .desktop file and deleting it, then restarting kde, could be enough

My suggestion:
kcontrol in a terminal.
KDE Components -> File associations.
In "Find filename pattern" put the type of file you mistakenly associated with "kwrtie". Maybe txt ?
Click on it in the lower part of the window
You will see a list of applications associated with this filetype. "kwrtie" will be at the top of the list.
Select "kwrtie" and choose "Remove".
Make sure kwrite is now at the top of the list.
Click "Apply".
Should be all fixed now.

Tried for .desktop and there is no kwrite or anything related. All looks fine.

The second verification, kcontrol, did that previously (this is why I posted, cuz I found weird having KWrite written correctly in kcontrol).

When I choose Open With... and Other, and type in KWRITE, it still links to "kwrtie". All txt files have kwrite associated correctly in kcontrol and it does open with kwrite if I choose Open With-Kwrite (it is listed in the drop down along with kate).

I can tell that performing an UPGRADE of my distro to a later version keeps that kwrite-kwrtie error. The upgrade from KDE3.5.7 to 3.5.10 does not override that mistake.

I will scan through all file types in kcontrol then. I checked 5-6 of them, but I'll see if I can find something on other types.

How about this:

find ~ -exec grep -Hs kwrtie "{}" ";"

This will search your entire home directory for any file that contains the string "kwrtie" and will print out the name of the file. If you find one of these under the kde settings directories, maybe you can just manually change it from kwrtie to kwrite and fix the problem.


Seems like there should be an easier (more GUI?) way to fix it, but if nothing else works, maybe this will steamroller the problem into submission! :-)

Found it!! At the same time you, plpl303, posted your msg, I was searching for the word, yes.

Used And it did find a few!! I think it's worth posting, in case someone comes into this situation. After you get into it once, you remember. lol

Files in trouble where:

- ~/.kde/share/applnk/.hidden/kwrite.desktop
- ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc
- ~/.kde/share/config/keditfiletyperc

The 1st file is a binary. I don't know what's that folder for, the other file in there is wine, which I don't use. I guess I could delete them, but I edited the kwrite. Did not fix it.
So I went to the 2nd file, edited it, did not fix.
So I went to the 3rd file, edited it, and it fixed it!!

God I love Linux! Good luck to solve such issues in Winblows! :P

tnx guys, hopefully this thread will be of some help to other people.

P.S.: plpl303: what's the difference between "find ~ -exec grep -Hs kwrtie "{}" ";"" and "find / -type f -exec grep -H 'kwrtie' {} \;"?

tnx