[LBo] Amarok won't start

[Tim]

If you are running KDE, then have a look at sysguard (normally installed by 
default), this is a graphical view of the programs running and you can locate 
each instance of amarok and kill the process with it (simple point and 
click).

Once you have killed off all instances of amarok, start amarok from the 
command line just to check that its not gewtting upset when it starts.

When I get a problem with a program I sometimes find logging out of KDE helps 
clear out any stray process (if they are connected to running in KDE), this 
assumes that your system boots to the commandline and then you start "X" 
manually

On my box clicking amarok for the firt time will open it like any other 
program, but if I click the "X" in the top right, the program disappears and 
an icon sits in the systray, if you want to close a,arok completely you have 
to click on "Quit" from the engage menu of right click on the icon in the 
system tray and select quit

Tim


On Friday 29 September 2006 07:15, Tor Erling Opsahl wrote:
> Ah, then I know what's probably the question, but the answer ;) one guy at
> the amarok forum suggested
> killall -9 amarokapp  I'll try that when I get home, I'm at work now and
> about 8 or 9 hours more..
>
> On 9/29/06, Ethan Jarlewski <eth.jar at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > 2006/9/28, Tor Erling Opsahl <tor.erling.opsahl at gmail.com>:
> > > Hi, I've been having problems with Amarok lately, when I try to start
> > > it from it's launcher it just makes the frame and disappares, when I
> > > try to start it from the console I get nothing, just a new empty line
> > > and the ready to write thing, but no new ~$ :S
> >
> > Whenever you click amarok's "close-button", the program does NOT exit. It
> > only closes the main-window and hides itself in the system-tray.
> > When you turn off you computer, amarok will be terminated. Then, when you
> > restart amarok (yourself or automatically through the session-manager),
> > it will start in this "hidden state".
> >
> > I have been caught by this behaviour more than once, starting more than
> > one amarok at a time.
> > If you really want to exit amarok you need to choose the item from the
> > menu.
> >
> > "I gotta go...mom just called. She needs a hand."
> >
> > Ethan
> >
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