KDE 2.2.1 System Resource KPanel Applet missing?
After upgrading from SuSE's KDE 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 my System Resource (I can't remember the actual name of it - it displayed CPU usage and memory usage) KPanel applet has disappeared and doesn't show up in the list of available applets. Did I screw something up, or has anyone else noticed this? David A. Riggs driggs4@wvu.edu SuSE 7.1 2.4.0-64GB-SMP KDE 2.2.1 XFree86 4.1.0 Abit BP6 Dual Celeron 550Mhz
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 02:41 pm, David A. Riggs wrote:
After upgrading from SuSE's KDE 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 my System Resource (I can't remember the actual name of it - it displayed CPU usage and memory usage) KPanel applet has disappeared and doesn't show up in the list of available applets.
Did I screw something up, or has anyone else noticed this?
David A. Riggs driggs4@wvu.edu SuSE 7.1 2.4.0-64GB-SMP KDE 2.2.1 XFree86 4.1.0 Abit BP6 Dual Celeron 550Mhz
The System Monitor applet (timemon) has been moved from kdebase to kdeaddons. It is located under 'applications' in kdeaddons-2.2.1-22.rpm now.
I added the runaway process applet to the panel but would now like to remove it. How do I do this? I hoped I would simply uncheck it via the add menu, but now that it is added it has been greyed out. There seems to be no delete operation that I can find and even editing what I thought was the right init file (kickerrc) to remove it didn't work (panel wouldn't load at all). There seems to be no documentation on this. Thanks, David
On Thursday 27 September 2001 12:33 am, David Holmes wrote:
I added the runaway process applet to the panel but would now like to remove it. How do I do this? I hoped I would simply uncheck it via the add menu, but now that it is added it has been greyed out. There seems to be no delete operation that I can find and even editing what I thought was the right init file (kickerrc) to remove it didn't work (panel wouldn't load at all). There seems to be no documentation on this.
Thanks, David
There should be two vertical bars on the left hand side of the applet. Right click these for the move/remove/preferances menu.
From: David A. Riggs [mailto:driggs4@wvu.edu] There should be two vertical bars on the left hand side of the applet. Right click these for the move/remove/preferances menu.
Many thanks - that was far from obvious. I thought the vertical bar was a separator between the K menu button and the rest of the panel (similar to the separators delineating the windows quick launch bar from the task bar and the Start menu button. Cheers, David
David Holmes wrote:
From: David A. Riggs [mailto:driggs4@wvu.edu] There should be two vertical bars on the left hand side of the applet. Right click these for the move/remove/preferances menu.
Many thanks - that was far from obvious. I thought the vertical bar was a separator between the K menu button and the rest of the panel (similar to the separators delineating the windows quick launch bar from the task bar and the Start menu button.
You're not the only one who missed that. I got involved with a thread in the kde-linux newsgroup where the folks there seemed to think that the method of accessing the move/remove/preferences menu was perfectly obvious. Seems to me like a not-so-wise bit of interface design. Paul
On Thursday 27 September 2001 0:33 am, David Holmes wrote:
I added the runaway process applet to the panel but would now like to remove it. How do I do this? I hoped I would simply uncheck it via the add menu, but now that it is added it has been greyed out. There seems to be no delete operation that I can find and even editing what I thought was the right init file (kickerrc) to remove it didn't work (panel wouldn't load at all). There seems to be no documentation on this.
I've been playing with applets on the panel most of this evening. I have discovered: 1) Adding an applet to the panel is a buggy process. 2) There is no way I can find to remove an applet. I found that my panel locked up most of the time after adding an applet. I dug around and found the applet definitions in .kde2/share/config/kickerrc and I deleted the ones I didn't want thinking I could fix the problem. Didn't work. I didn't get any panel after that. So..... the very simple solution is to delete the above kickerrc file and start your panel from scratch. Should be a big deal to re-modify it to your liking. And once you learn that you can delete the file, you can go back to playing with the applets knowing how to correct any problems that surface. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 09/27/01 00:40 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Kirby's Comment on Committees: "A committee is the only life form with 12 stomachs and no brain."
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