Bug#986821: freecad: Garbled menu makes freecad unusable

[Tobias Frost]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 01:35:09AM +0200, Michael Jarosch wrote:
> It's been a while…
> 
> Sorry!

Np, thanks for following up!
> 
> Am 16.04.21 um 12:19 schrieb Tobias Frost:
> > Another random idea: Can you try to create a new user and try from
> > there. Just to
> > ensure that there isnt something with your user account (E.g I had a silly bug where
> > I had something in $HOME/.local shadowing stuff some time ago…)
> 
> I took the time and tried another fresh user - and you were right: FreeCAD
> started up undamaged.
> 
> Now, I'm trying to kill the old config that caused the problem, but that
> seams not to be that easy.
> First of all, I discovered a ~/.FreeCAD AND a ~/.config/FreeCAD directory
> which are both freshly created when renaming them. (Still, that didn't make
> a difference in appearance…)
> Second: I don't know, which file in ~/.local/share is to be deleted/renamed.
> All I can find is a freecad.xml in ~/.local/share/mime/packages and some
> icons in another directory but they don't seem to be involved in my problem.
 
> Another idea?

Its a bit of a big hammer, but you could try stracing it, to see which files
are accessed in your home directory. Maybe that gives a hint…

> Greets!
>