KGet in xfce4: why doesn't it do anything, not even the downloads?
Kernel 2.6.21.5, GNU/Linux (Slackware 12.0)
xfce 4.4 Qt 3.3.8 KDE 3.5.7 KGet v. 0.8.5 Hi: I've just installed all of the packages in disks 1 and 2 of the slack 12.0 distro so, among them, I have the slack series kde/ installed. I run xfce as the desktop environment, which is able to run KDE apps. In main menu>Network there is kget, a download manager and also supposedly a p2p client. I ran it and it said "It is the 1st time you run kget. Do you want to make the default download manager?". I replied "No". As nothing happened I restarted X (the startx command ends up running xfce), ran kget again, and it made the same question, which this time I answered in the affirmative. Again nothing happened. So I tried to download some file from the web, in the hope that a kget window would open. But no window opened nor anything else happened! In the console, I did 'ps -e' and there it was, however. So I began the search for help/documentation. First I ran khelpcenter, and was presented with the kget help. It was all about menus. Then I searched within kde.org, but I did not find a clue to my problem. And the usual googling, of course. However, typing kget --help-all in a console, gives almost two screens of information. And I tried several commands, from the GUI, following the syntax displayed by this command, but it was no use. So, I finally had to fall back on LQ, like so many times, in the hope that some of you guys can give me a hand. Regards. |
make sure that Xfce is launching KDE services at startup - in the settings menu, go to sessions and startup, then make sure that you have the appropriate checkbox marked.
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Hi:
And thanks for your reply. I did exactly what you pointed out. Then I exited xfce, which in turn makes X to exit and restarted. But no use. Xfce 4.4.1 Qt 3.3.8 KDE 3.5.7 KGet v0.8.5 These are the version numbers, if it can help. On the other hand, the software in my hard disk the result of a full slack 12.0 installation and nothing else, except some auxiliary programs. Regards. |
What happens when you run just kget from a terminal?
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Sorry for the delay. I ran kget from an xterm and the same thing: it just gave me the prompt back. I already mentioned in post #1 that running in a terminal (tty or xterm) 'kget --help-all' gives two screens of syntax:
Code:
semoi@darkstar:~$ kget --help-all But perhaps "default" is the key word. For maybe there is an option, in Xfce4, to change the default. If so, I do not find it. Regards. |
Are you sure nothing happens when you run it. In KDE it starts minimised and places an icon in the system tray which you then click on to get the main kget window. Never used xfce so I don't know if it does the same there.
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Quite sure, invisible in the GUI. ps however reveals it's running.
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I noticed that wget starts Kget on my machine. Maybe it would help if you downloaded somthing with wget, broke the download off and then started Kget. You have wget installed, haven't you? "man wget" ;). Kget is only a graphical front-end for wget...
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