Stan Goodman wrote:
On Monday 31 March 2008 00:04:21 David C. Rankin wrote:
Stan Goodman wrote:
Stan Goodman 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
On Sunday 30 March 2008 12:38:29 auxsvr@gmail.com wrote: 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
On Sunday 30 March 2008 22:06:51 David C. Rankin wrote: 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.
Wouldn't you think so?
That they don't is _one_ of the downsides to free software.
In my experience, commercial software isn't any better, especially when a simple work-around is available like the one Fred posted.
Is there somewhere a list of these things?
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