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Gryu
Asked: 2019-11-20 00:50:32 +0800 CST

Could not start kmplayer using desktop menu launcher

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I use Budgie DM on Ubuntu 19.10 (firstly noticed on 19.04).

I've installed kmplayer using 

sudo apt install kmplayer

When I run kmplayer from terminal: $ kmplayer, it runs successfully throwing only:

 Invalid Context= "Mimetypes" line for icon theme:  "/usr/share/icons/Faba/symbolic/mimetypes/"
 Icon theme "elementary" not found.

I can drag and drop videos into it and it plays them.

But when I try to open kmplayer using desktop menu, its icon appears on dock panel and disappears after 15 seconds without main window opening.

Also, when I try to open a video using Context menu -> Open with -> Kmplayer it behaves the same wrong way.

Gnome MPV, VLC, Parole Media Player open videos without issues.

KMPlayer version: 0.12.0b (c) 2002-2016, Koos Vriezen

Why could it be opened by terminal command and could not be opened by Menu item clicking or by opening video using Open with context menu clicking?

dock budgie 19.04 19.10

1 Answers

  1. It can't start by clicking the menu item because KDE launches it with additional options.

    To fix that:

    1. Open KDE Menu Editor.
    2. Find the KMPlayer item.
    3. Change the Command entry with kmplayer without any options.

    That works for me.

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