Re: [opensuse] Is it possible to remove a disappeared Panel, and install a new one?

On Sunday 30 March 2008 22:06:51 David C. Rankin wrote:
Stan Goodman wrote:
On Sunday 30 March 2008 12:38:29 auxsvr@xxxxxxxxx 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 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 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.


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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
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