#MAC OPEN RECENT MENU ALWAYS BLANK INSTALL#
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By default, it opens with the application that is assigned to work with its file type so, if you have Microsoft Office on your Mac, a.

The basic way to open a file on the Mac - and on Windows as well - is to double-click a file. Here are a dozen ways you can open files on a Mac. You can open files in windows, from menus, and from dialogs. But did you know that there are lots of different ways to open files? You can use your mouse, your trackpad, or even your keyboard. Sadly, I do not know enough to probe further.You open files every time you work on your Mac, most often, probably, by double-clicking them. I am beginning to suspect that this either has something to do with the multiplicity of modes for opening a file and/or something to do with multiple, co-existent QT libraries that should not be there but are somehow there.

I tried selecting the file using Dolphin instead and then launched it from there using kate but the there is still no persistent Open Recent file list: only a transient indication of the current file while it is being edited. When I cleared them, so that the list could be populated by editable files that I opened thereafter, no newer documents appeared with this icon. I am unable to use the KDE Kickoff launcher Recently Used icon because recent documents have disappeared! Initially, there were only a set of font files that I had recently installed. This behaviour is unchanged if I use the Filesystem Browser left tab in kate instead of the File -> Open menu item. After closing that file, if I try re-invoking kate from the command line, and take a look at the File -> Open Recent menu item it shows a greyed out label 'No entries'. When I invoke kate from a terminal and open a file using the File -> Open menu, the file that I have opened for editing appears when I click on the menu item File -> Open Recent. If you open a document in Kate itself ( with the open menu option ) is the file added to the Recent files list? ( Please check both Recent files and terminal execution methods ) Many thanks in advance for your kind help.īcooksley wrote:This is unusual. Interestingly, kile 2.1 shows all recently opened files exactly as expected.

My fear is that something basic has become corrupted or is incompatible for some reason, and is causing this hassle.įYI, I did install kile 2.1 built from a source package for intrepid obtained from a launchpad ppa that is now no more available, just in case that is contributing to this behaviour. If I need to uninstall/remove something major and try re-installing, I am happy to do that, even if it involves some effort. Is there some config variable that has been wrongly set to false? I have even tried adding the new kate session widget to the panel and trying it from there, but all to no avail. I have tried invoking kate from the command line like you have suggested above and also from an icon on my new KDE 4.2-style panel. Has this to do with kate sessions? I do not have special sessions. I have done the above and still do not see recently opened files in File -> Open Recent. Bcooksley wrote:Please try setting the environment variable KDEHOME before starting Kate:

#MAC OPEN RECENT MENU ALWAYS BLANK MAC#

#MAC OPEN RECENT MENU ALWAYS BLANK INSTALL#

Mac open recent menu always blank