How to get Openbox as kde's window manager
Testing
Installing the openbox.
Making a new user.
Log in as the new user.
The KDE Menu is empty.
Trying to fix
Running the kbuildsycoca4 to rebuild the system configuration cache.
:~$ kbuildsycoca4 --help
Usage: kbuildsycoca4 [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options]
Rebuilds the system configuration cache.
Generic options:
--help Show help about options
--help-qt Show Qt specific options
--help-kde Show KDE specific options
--help-all Show all options
--author Show author information
-v, --version Show version information
--license Show license information
-- End of options
Options:
--nosignal Do not signal applications to update
--noincremental Disable incremental update, re-read everything
--checkstamps Check file timestamps
--nocheckfiles Disable checking files (dangerous)
--global Create global database
--menutest Perform menu generation test run only
--track <menu-id> Track menu id for debug purposes
There is an error - missing files.
Starting the Dolphin file manager with the root rights (kdesudo dolphin).
Browsing to the /etc/xdg/menus/. There is the kde4-applications.menu but not the applications.menu.
Making a softlink / symlink from the applications.menu to the kde4-applications.menu (KDE drag&drop menu "link here").
Running the command:
kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
again...
The KDE menu is now populated with the available applications.