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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