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jshermanlaw

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Registered: 2016-10-11

Posts: 3

Control Panel

When I click on "Control Panel", and then click on one of the icons, such as "icons" or "screensaver", the system wants to open the desktop configuration file in Firefox, and the requested screen doesn't open, and nothing can be configured in the Control Panel.

How do I reset this so that the Control Panel works normally?

Thanks.

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,333

Re: Control Panel

Well, I can only suggest that somehow you've configured all html to be run through Firefox.

KDE uses html practically everywhere - here's the top part of the Taskbar Icon .desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
Icon=kmenu
Type=Application
X-DocPath=kicker/taskbar-settings.html
Exec=tdecmshell kcmtaskbar

X-TDE-Library=taskbar
X-TDE-FactoryName=taskbar
X-TDE-ParentApp=kcontrol

In your case taskbar-settings.html is loading Firefox.

Open a terminal and just type in:-
tdecmshell kcmtaskbar

That should open the taskbar configuration.

If that works then open Control Centre>Desktop and right click on the Taskbar icon
Go down to 'Preview in embedded advanced text editor'.

Does the top part of the file look the same?

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,501

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Re: Control Panel

How do I reset this so that the Control Panel works normally?

You could also check file associations. Start konqueror->settings->file associations and under 'application' select schema 'x-desktop'. If there is Firefox in 'Application Preference order', remove it.

jshermanlaw

Member

Registered: 2016-10-11

Posts: 3

Re: Control Panel

Thanks for your help.  Your last suggestion worked.  Firefox was listed in the konqueror, x-desktop setting.  I removed it, and everything is back to normal.