Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (929 mails)

[Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 14:04 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
> On 08/06/2011 06:09 PM, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > When I installed v11.4/KDE on this system some weeks ago, its background
> > was a tannish grey with a kind of grey horizontal barberpole effect, as
> > I remember, with black lettering. I do not remember setting a specific
> > color, and I am unable to find a setting in Configure Desktop/Personal
> > Settings (formerly System Settings). Some days afterward, I noticed that
> > the background has become a dark grey (still with black characters), so
> > that reading te lettering was very difficult or impossible; only the
> > presence of icons makes this panel useful. I have no idea what caused
> > the change. Nothing else on the desktop has a black background.
> >
> > A few days later, the colors returned to their original state, but
> > another few days later became black again. You can see what this looks
> > like at <ftp.hashkedim.com/pub/panel1.png>.
> >
> > I have a second panel at the top of the screen which is, if anything, in
> > worse condition: most of the vertical height of the "barberpole is
> > overlaid with a black strip, so that panel has become totally useless.
> >
> > What is doing this?
>
> In my efforts to understand more about the Panel and how it works, I 
> seem to have introduced a further complication. The order of the 
> contents had become changed, with the Digital Clock, the additional 
> Calendar, and the System Tray to the left, and the Task Manager at the 
> extreme right. With some difficulty (because "moved" elements kept 
> popping back to where they were) I succeeded in correcting most of the 
> disorder. But when the smoke cleared away, the System Tray had left the 
> Panel and was residing in solitary splendor on the Desktop (NOT in the 
> "Desktop Folder", but in the apparently nameless expanse of the screen, 
> what used to be called the Desktop), It has so far resisted attempts to 
> shove it back to the Panel. Please, how can I restore it to the Panel?
Hi Stan,
I did this same thing with the task manager panel (kicker) once.  I
never could figure out how to get it back to standard, so I created a
whole new taskmanager (kicker) panel at the top of the desktop.  Then, I
deleted all of the remaining bits of the old taskmanager panel.
Finally, I moved my new taskmanager panel to the bottom of the desktop. 


> If and when that is accomplished, I am reasonably sure it will be at the 
> extreme right, and I look forward to another battle of wits to move it 
> to its normal position.
>
> Does anyone know where the background color of the Panel can be 
> configured? And where the configuration of the Panel (specifically the 
> colors) are stored? I have not been able to find either of these 
> details, in either a search of Personal Settings or a Google search.
>
>
> -- 
> Stan Goodman
> Qiryat Tiv'on
> Israel


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