Opening Links from some applications takes a long time
I was having the same issue until I found a solution. Whenever I tried to click a link in Slack, the logs in journalctl -f
showed:
xdg-desktop-portal-kde[1886]: xdp-kde-settings: Read called with parameters:
xdg-desktop-portal-kde[1886]: xdp-kde-settings: group: "org.kde.kdeglobals.General"
xdg-desktop-portal-kde[1886]: xdp-kde-settings: key: "menuFont"
xdg-desktop-portal-kde[1886]: xdp-kde-settings: Key "menuFont" doesn't exist"
It turns out I was missing some values in my .config/kdeglobals
configuration file, as the error above shows. You can regenerate the missing values by going to System Configuration -> Fonts -> Do any random change -> Apply.
After doing this the links started working fine.
When opened with affected apps (i.e. Slack) it hangs on "kde-open5 https://some-url" (which is launched by xdg-open).
I've tried to debug this with strace:
mv /usr/bin/kde-open5 /usr/bin/kde-open5.orig
Then created an executable (chmod 755) /usr/bin/kde-open5 with the following content:
#!/bin/bash
strace -f -s 1000 -tt /usr/bin/kde-open5.orig $@ &>/tmp/kde-open5-$RANDOM.log
And seeing where exactly it hangs.
I think it deserves its own Launchpad ticket?