klauncher, can't live with it, can't shoot it

[Michael James]

Anyone know how to stop klauncher going berserk?

I'm reading email in kmail and painstakingly
 pasting any interesting URLs into firefox.

Should I accidentally left-click on any links klauncher goes berserk,
 the cursor starts flashing the konqueror icon (looks like a sea mine).

ps -ef shows an ever-changing population of klauncher
 attaching to /tmp/ksocket-  

The only way to stop it is to kill the klauncher parent,
 and then I have a dead KDE desktop.
Trying to re-launch it gets me nothing but a warning
 that this is meant to be part of kdestartup, no command line invocation.

So I have to log out and back in again.
This can't be normal, but it happens every time.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

michaelj

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Michael James                         michael.james at csiro.au
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CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility             fax:  02 6246 5166

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 you always get less than you hoped.
Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.


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what a web browser is for.