Re: [tlug] kdenlive not opening

[Lyle H Saxon <llletters@example.com>]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 4:00 AM Bernie Innocenti <bernie@example.com> wrote:

Desktop apps often refuse to open when another instance is still
running. It might have closed all its windows, but the process is hung
on dbus or something.

I tried rebooting the machine.  I tried uninstalling Kdenlive and then reinstalling it, and I tried uninstalling it and installing an older version - all to no avail.

This is one of many issues which is magically cured by a reboot, but you
can also use "pgrep -l kdenlive" to confirm my theory and then "pkill
kdenlive" or even "pkill -9 kdenlive" to get rid of it.

I'll give that a try....

By the way, is your experience with Kdenlive generally positive? Which
version? Every time I tried doing some video editing on Linux I ran into
bugs, but I know the KDE devs have been hard at work to improve overall
stability and usability of their desktop and apps.

When I first tried it, I wasn't having much luck getting it to do what I needed, but after seeing a YouTube tutorial at this YouTube channel::
www.youtube.com/@victorianodejesus/videos

It became a very useful video editing tool.  The key thing for me is how individual clips can be edited in/from a left side panel, and everything left out of the timeline until the end, when things can be dropped down into the timeline by clicking on them (to highlight them) and then pressing the [V] key.  (You can drag them there with the mouse as well, but I prefer to use keyboard shortcuts whenever possible.)

There are some conditions that will crash it, but I've found it to be (overall) been very useful.

- Lyle