Re: KDE 3.3 taskbar bug

From: Randall Schulz (sinkhole_at_tarpit.net)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:36:15 GMT

Jan,

At Friday 20 August 2004 04:24 in alt.os.linux.suse Jan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Last night I upgraded tot KDE 3.3 coming from KDE 3.2.3. Looks great,
> but there are some niggles:
> - the panel/taskbar seems not to update any changes. The default is not
> to display open applications (and minimized applications are invisible
> in the taskbar and cannot be maximised) and I need to set that manually.
> After that it fails to remove closed applications from the taskbar so
> that will fill up...
> - the systemtray will not display at first. I need to select Remove
> Systemtray and then Add Systemtray to see it.
> - quite a lot of screensavers are missing. I see something happening
> when I click around in that module, but preview stays black and testing
> does not work. Do these screensavers come on top?
>
> Otherwise KDE seems pretty okay. No fatal flaws encountered.
>
> Jan

Everything about my panel was very flaky after my KDE 3.3 update.
Eventually I discovered that removing and re-adding each Applet (in my
case, Panel, Taskbar and System Tray) made everything start to behave
properly again.

My offhand guess is that the KDE 3.2.3 configuration information was
giving the KDE 3.3 components indigestion.

I found a few posts on the SuSE-KDE list
(<http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-kde/>) that explained the
screensaver problem (the thread begins here:
<http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-kde/2004-Aug/0135.html>; note, too,
that the OP of this topic did not properly start a new thread). I applied
the fix shown there and my screensavers are all back in working order,
now.

Randal Schulz

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