missing kde control center

[Ed Greshko]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 03 May 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>> Running kde, FC6 system uptodate as of a couple of hours ago.
>>>
>>> After tonight's update of about 4 items by smart, the control center is
>>> missing from the kmenu.
>>>
>>> How can this be restored?
>> Run kmenuedit and add it back in.  For completeness the command used to call
>> kcontrol from kmenu is "kcontrol -caption "%c" %i %m".
>>
> 
> Thanks.  But that also is on the missing list.
> 
> But I ran it from a shell, and got this output in the shell:
> 
> [root at coyote init.d]# kmenuedit
> [root at coyote init.d]# X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
>   Major opcode:  20
>   Minor opcode:  0
>   Resource id:  0x22002a7
> X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
>   Major opcode:  20
>   Minor opcode:  0
>   Resource id:  0x2200587
> X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
>   Major opcode:  20
>   Minor opcode:  0
>   Resource id:  0x22005c0
> X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
>   Major opcode:  20
>   Minor opcode:  0
>   Resource id:  0x2200697
> QInputContext: cannot create input context for non-toplevel widgets
> QInputContext: cannot create input context for non-toplevel widgets
> 
> I added both kmenuedit and kcontrol to the 'system settings' submenu, and that 
> appears to have worked ok.

That's strange.  Those other errors would seem to indicate something else is
also hosed.  Not that it is common, but have you tried the dreaded reboot?  :-)