Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stan Goodman wrote:
> On Sunday 30 March 2008 22:06:51 David C. Rankin wrote:
> > Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > On Sunday 30 March 2008 12:38:29 auxsvr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 30 March 2008, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > > > It is really difficult to operate without the Panel that has
> > > > > vanished, because it contains the virtual desktops. If I could
> > > > > destroy the thing and make a new one, and could emplace the applets
> > > > > on it as they were, life would be much easier. Can that be done?
> > > > Do you mean that the panel doesn't start when logging in? I had the
> > > > same problem some months ago, it was caused by a .desktop file
> > > > (kcmkicker.desktop if I remember correctly) in the .kde directory.
> > > > Try deleting it.
> > > When the the machine boots (to this user), it does appear
> > > momentarily, and then disappears. That doesn't sound like what you
> > > describe, but stranger things have happened lately; it's worth a try
> > > to delete the file.
> > >
> > > I should have mentioned that I have a second panel on the desktop, at
> > > the top of the screen, currently containing only two icons. If this
> > > one is displayed, then the problem is limited to the default panel,
> > > which is at the bottom of the screen.
> > Stan,
> >
> >         I believe the proper command is:
> >
> > dcop kicker kicker restart
> >
> > I ran into this problem with compiz a while back
>
> But the problem turned out to be that the file 
> <~/.kde/share/config/kickerr> had been altered, in that two lines had 
> been deleted (not by me; I never heard of that file previously; and there 
> is nobody else here). The lines:
>
> AutoHidePanel=false   and
> AutoHideDelay=3
>
> were missing -- although the Hiding tab in the Panels configuration 
> notebook of Control Center still showed the correct settings as if the 
> missing lines were actually present. Someone much more familiar with 
> Linux than me might have put 2 +2 together and deduced exactly where the 
> problem was, just because the panel did appear very briefly and then went 
> into hiding. So it was clear that it had not been deleted -- and I even 
> mentioned that at one point.
>
> The file was otherwise uncorrupted. Odd that such a thing can happen 
> spontaneously to a file without making gibberish of it.

There seem to be a bunch of those in KDE. Another one that comes to mind 
is "MenuEntryHeight=25" (or 26 or 32) that controls icon size and 
spacing in the start menu. That too disappears from 
~/.kde/share/config/kickerrc under the section:

[menus]
<snip>
MenuEntryFormat=NameAndDescription
MenuEntryHeight=32

Looks like KDE routines dealing with kickerrc should be revisited by the 
 KDE folks.


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