Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Stan Goodman said:
> But thankfully, this has proved unnecessary. See below.

> *****
> Unhide it (Control Centre==> Desktop--> Panels--> Hiding tab) and use the
> left or right hiding function instead. There's also the Raise when the
> pointer touches the screen's: function.
> ****
>
> In the Hide tab, there was a button marked for hiding the panel
> automatically after 3 seconds, which is what is intended to happen. I
> changed the behavior to hide only when I click on a Hide button, and that
> brought the panel back in all its glory. Then I changed again to hide
> automatically after 3 seconds (in other words, the way it was
> originally), and the behavior is exactly what it should be. The bloody
> thing was stuck. I will not forget this one in a hurry.

Time for some fault analysis so we can prevent this happening in future:

As far as I understand 

* User (where User == Stan, this time) configured panel to hide after 3 
seconds.

* On start of new session, panel was briefly visible but did not become 
visible again on mousing into corners/edges

Fault tree, [X] are excluded 
----------------------------
1 [X] Panel not visible on startup
1.1 [X] Panel process (kicker) was not running
1.2 Panel was hidden
1.2.1 [X] Panel was manually hidden but show button was not visible due to 
badly adjusted monitor
1.2.2 Panel was automatically hidden but did not respond to show panel 
triggers
1.2.2.1 No specific show trigger location was set.  In this (default) case the 
screen edge where panel is positioned is the show trigger.  This did not 
function at all.
1.2.2.2 A specific show trigger was set, but in a location inconsistent with 
the panel location (eg panel at bottom edge, trigger at top left) where User 
did not find it.
1.2.2.3 Show triggers were off screen due to badly adjusted monitor, User did 
not find them.
1.3 [X] Panel was visible 
1.3.1 [X] Panel was off screen due to badly adjusted monitor.
1.3.2 [X] Panel was obscured by "Allow other windows to cover the panel" and 
did not respond to show triggers.
1.3.2.x [X] (as 1.2.2.x)


Please correct me if I've excluded 1.3.x causes too hastily.

I now need some info so I can exclude some of 1.2.2.x:

Where was the panel located?
Was the "Raise the panel when the pointer touches the screen's <orientation> 
corner" setting enabled? 
If so, what part of the screen (aka show trigger) should have raised the 
pointer?

If you don't remember, could you try to reproduce the problem now that we know 
how to solve it?

Will
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Desktop Engineer
KDE Team
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