My Okular settings are messed up (menus are broken, details probably not important to describe).

I tried purging the package and reinstalling,
tried clearing okular files from “~/.config”,
got no relevant output opening from terminal,
saw nothing in man page bout getting more feedback…?

What do?

I couldn’t find anything on the man page about, like, a flag to get it to tell you what files it’s reading when it starts up or anything like that?
(
the only output I get when I open it from the commandline is:

Unable to open QuickAnnotatingTools XML definition
kf.xmlgui: Shortcut for action “mainToolBar” “Show Toolbar” set with QAction::setShortcut()! Use KActionCollection::setDefaultShortcut(s) instead.

)

[ btw, wasn’t sure where to post this, so did three copies:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1erm5zc/my_okular_settings_are_messed_up_what_do_tried/

https://lemmy.world/post/18617509

https://discuss.kde.org/t/my-okular-settings-are-messed-up-tried-purging-the-package-tried-clearing-okular-files-from-config-no-relevant-output-opening-from-terminal-nothing-in-man-page-bout-getting-more-feedback/20012

]

  • dwawlynOP
    2•4 months ago

    Oooh! Now that’s a new idea! Thank you!

    … uh, any tips on how to filter/process the output? There’s like a bazillion lines going on about breeze-dark icons etc…

    • @418teapotEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      Oof yeah, some programs really love to touch a lot of stuff making strace kind of annoying to use. I usually end up chaining more grep -v pipes on the end as I find files I’m not interested in seeing e.g.

      strace okular | grep openat | grep -v breeze-dark | grep -v icon

      Might help to first save it to a file so you don’t have to keep relaunching okular as you add more inverse greps

      strace okular | tee some-file
^C
cat some-file | grep -v ...