XDG choose file opens unreadable list

[Ozdemon]

I need to open a png to add to an email. When I select ‘choose file’ I get this unreadable screen (attached). I am using Plasma 6.05 with Wayland.

[linux-aarhus]

A quick guess: You are likely missing a font required for your chosen locale.

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @Ozdemon,

That looks like a missing font. It could simply be because the font’s not there and you have to re-add it. Just check your font settings in System Settings → Appearance & Style → Text & Fonts → Fonts.

Edit:

Well, I’ve never had to do this, so I don’t know it this’ll work but you could also try removing the config file and starting over:

mv ~/.config/kdeglobals ~/.config/kdeglobals.backup

Note: this’ll remove all your plasma settings, so if it works you can either reconfigure plasma, or copy the settings back line-by-line to find the one that did the damage. If it didn’t work, simply restore the file:

rm ~/.config/kdeglobals
cp ~/.config/kdeglobals.backup ~/.config/kdeglobals

Hope this helps!

Edit #2:

The exact same for:

~/.kde4/share/config/kdeglobals

(If it exists, that is.)

[Ozdemon]

Thanks Midarthos for the prompt and detailed reply. I think you are right about locale as I am temporarily in Spain. Is there another way of overcoming the problem? Like force changing my locale, or finding an alternative to xdg?

[Mirdarthos]

I think changing your locale, or maybe language from anything automatic to English should work. Look in System Settings:

https://i.imgur.com/AcZdNBa.png

Edit:

And the

localectl

…command should help, if nothing else…Also see:

[root tip] [How To] Troubleshooting locale errors

Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ Locale Errors Locale errors are not always obvious and some applications simply stop working without any hints at all - e.g. Gnome Terminal is very sensitive to incorrect configuration of locale. TL:DR As root edit the file /etc/locale.gen Enable the needed locales - including en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 as fallback. Rebuild the locale database using the locale-gen script Calamares installer The Calamares installer adds the locales chosen to the end of /etc/locale.gen so check the …

And

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale#Setting_the_locale

[Ozdemon]

@Mirdarthos

localectl

System Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
               LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
               LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
               LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: (unset)                   
   X11 Layout: au

The locale settings are correct for me. I don’t understand why xdg is doing this. I have installed a spanish font, abbeezee, which made no difference. I even tried handlr without success, but I’m flying blind with that.

[EDIT]
I was able to load the file using a URL instead of XDG. As I don’t think this is likely to happen again, I am giving up on the XDG problem. Thanks to Mirdarthos and linux-aarhus.

[soundofthunder]

Cool, a teaching moment…

@Ozdemon

While it’s nice that you seem to have found a solution to your issue, please observe the recommended method to mark the thread as solved.

Unlike some other forums, adding [solved] (or similar) to the title is not the way to indicate a thread is solved in the Manjaro Forum. I have edited the title for you to remove your addition.

Please find the post that helped you the most, and click the (tick) below it to mark that post as the solution.

Thanks.

[Ozdemon]

Further research shows this is a known issue. The solution (for me) was to remove the snap install of bluemail with:

pamac remove --no-save snapd 

However, that does not remove all the bluemail files. The following command worked for me:

[quote="Mirdarthos, post:4, topic:164280"]
`sudo sh -c 'rm -rf /var/lib/snapd/cache/*'`
[/quote]

Then I installed bluemail from the AUR (which I should have done to begin with) and problem solved.

[cscs]

Theres probably more SNAP residual …

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