need to view gwenview dropdown menus?

[golson765]

I don't know when it happened, but since the last time I used Gwenview
for something more than just viewing and now, suddenly the dropdown
menus have disappeared. I used to use them often for batch processing of
photos - resizing them before posting them on the web. Now the dropdown
menus are gone. Can anyone tell me how to get them back?

I don't even know how to tell you which version of Gwenview I am using
because there are no dropdown menus to look on the "about" setting.
Well, ok, from the command line, I find that I am using 4.10.0.

Thanks in advance!

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[DenverD]

On 04/26/2013 08:39 AM, golson765 wrote:
> I don't know when it happened, but since the last time I used Gwenview
> for something more than just viewing and now, suddenly the dropdown
> menus have disappeared. I used to use them often for batch processing of
> photos - resizing them before posting them on the web. Now the dropdown
> menus are gone. Can anyone tell me how to get them back?
>
> I don't even know how to tell you which version of Gwenview I am using
> because there are no dropdown menus to look on the "about" setting.
> Well, ok, from the command line, I find that I am using 4.10.0.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

it sounds like some kind of corruption in the config file, so if you
were to

-shut down gwenview

-issue the following in a user terminal

rename ~/.kde4/share/config/gwenviewrc
~/.kde4/share/config/gwenviewrc.BAK

-restart gwenview

it _might_ then regenerate an uncorrupted config file...and again
show you the menus

hmmm...you could (or course) do the same thing in Dolphin or your GUI
file manager of choice....the same thing being to rename the file to
something else..

the reason i suggest rename (whereas other might say to just delete
it) is if what i suggested does not work at the very least you should
be able to go back in and rename gwenviewrc.BAK to gwenviewrc and at
least have a gwenview without that menu which you can then TRY the
next helper's prescription on.

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dd
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[golson765]

On 04/26/2013 03:25 PM, dd wrote:
> On 04/26/2013 08:39 AM, golson765 wrote:
>> I don't know when it happened, but since the last time I used Gwenview
>> for something more than just viewing and now, suddenly the dropdown
>> menus have disappeared. I used to use them often for batch processing of
>> photos - resizing them before posting them on the web. Now the dropdown
>> menus are gone. Can anyone tell me how to get them back?
>>
>> I don't even know how to tell you which version of Gwenview I am using
>> because there are no dropdown menus to look on the "about" setting.
>> Well, ok, from the command line, I find that I am using 4.10.0.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>
> it sounds like some kind of corruption in the config file, so if you
> were to
>
> -shut down gwenview
>
> -issue the following in a user terminal
>

> rename ~/.kde4/share/config/gwenviewrc
> ~/.kde4/share/config/gwenviewrc.BAK
>

>
> -restart gwenview
>
> it _might_ then regenerate an uncorrupted config file...and again show
> you the menus
>
> hmmm...you could (or course) do the same thing in Dolphin or your GUI
> file manager of choice....the same thing being to rename the file to
> something else..
>
> the reason i suggest rename (whereas other might say to just delete
> it) is if what i suggested does not work at the very least you should
> be able to go back in and rename gwenviewrc.BAK to gwenviewrc and at
> least have a gwenview without that menu which you can then TRY the
> next helper's prescription on.
>
Thank you, that did it! I got the menus back!

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G.O.
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Box #2: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | 4GB
Laptop: 12.3 | KDE 4.10 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | 8GB
learning openSUSE and loving it

[DenverD]

On 04/26/2013 10:15 AM, golson765 wrote:
> Thank you

welcome...and remember this strategy (rename the config file) the
next time something like this happens to your system..

but NOW you have to wonder how and when that file got corrupted (as
far as i know that file has never mysteriously become corrupted on my
system!)

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dd