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title:KDE K Menu Start Menu kdemenuedit Menu Editor Fails Launch Problem keywords:doesn't run, doesn't launch, fails to launch, fails to run, doesn't work, won't work, will not work, does not launch, selecting doesn't work, can't select, cannot select, k menu problem, kmenu problem, kmenuedit problem, "k menu fail", "k menu launch" Description:Howto fix a small KDE bug where right-click on the K Menu and selecting Menu Edit does nothing. The KDE "K Menu" "Menu Editor" fails to launch. Nothing happens. Running kmenuedit at the command line works fine. (keywords: doesn't run, doesn't launch, fails to launch, fails to run, doesn't work, won't work, will not work, does not launch, selecting doesn't work, can't select, cannot select, k menu problem, kmenu problem, kmenuedit problem, "k menu fail", "k menu launch"). (Using this long list of keywords is an attempt to allow Google to find this information. Search engines fail miserably when the search query is "something didn't happen".) http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=114628364818560&w=2 Fixing this will delete any changes you made to your K Menu. Remove or rename the menus directory in the .config directory: ~/.config/menus Then run: kbuildsycoca There is an obscure bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178320 Many thanks to "Rex" for his answer and to the list.kde.org people for their internal search which I finally used with the generic search string "kmenuedit" to find this solution.