Re: [tlug] kdenlive not opening

[Bernie Innocenti <bernie@example.com>]

Are you running Kdenlive from a terminal or from the KDE application 
launcher?
Sadly, crucial errors such a missing library will only appear in the 
terminal, leaving desktop users wondering why an app silently fails to 
start.
Another question: did you install Kdenlive through a distro package or 
Flatpak / Snap? The Plasma Discover GUI doesn't make the origin of an 
installed app obvious, but if it lets you configure permissions at the 
bottom, then it's definitely a Flatpak.

On 12/24/24 20:49, Lyle H Saxon wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 4:00 AM Bernie Innocenti <bernie@example.com 
> <mailto: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 <http://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

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