I have a strange problem about the system tray that I hope someone else solved …
I have 11.4 64bit with all the new up-dates installed and sometimes the system tray Stops hiding.
I have the option to hide the system tray and it just stays there.
I noticed this sometimes happens when the show plasma dashboard or show desktop widgets are used.
Is there a “cure” for this? Does someone have the same problem ?
Another issue is that I in my install the /home mount point was mounted on top of an older install of Opensuse.
Maybe this is the cause of my problems … maybe not …
You can’t hide the sys tray. You can choose which widgets it contains will auto hide.
Or are you meaning the panel ? Which can also be set to auto hide.
Re: /home
If you mean it was used for a previous install and not formatted, yes it could be an issue. Especially if the username is the same and you mean a version that didn’t use kde4?
You could create a new user account and try logging in with that to see if it’s better. At least it will help us see where the problems are.
The problem just disappeared when i closed Eclipse 3.6 … I opened it again and it is ok now. The system tray hides.
It is also one of my profound hatred towards KDE4 …
On 06/14/2011 03:06 PM, keyb user wrote:
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> I have the option to hide the system tray and it just stays there.
are you talking about the KDE4 panel? (isn’t ‘system tray’ last
century’s nomenclature?)
my panel is set to auto-hide…some times it does not…have no idea
why…i’ve not looked to see if there has been a bug logged, maybe you
will, here: http://tinyurl.com/nzhq7j
I know caf … not a very wise move but I really have this utter dislike over KDE 4 …
Very pretty desktop all very good graphics and the like … but I happen to program and actually make some work and I can not stand a alt+tab windows on Eclipse that takes 2 seconds … with no effects on the desktop whatsoever …
Also some effects do not work, some applications are much “poorer” in kde4.
Well there are a lot of things wrong on KDE 4.
So I will give a try with KDE 3.5. … I also do not like Gnome a lot …
On 06/14/2011 05:36 PM, caf4926 wrote:
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> For the record
> I have a panel to the side (left) for quick launch, set to auto-hide,
> never had a issue with it.
i also have an auto-hide panel on the left…occasionally it (or the
one at the bottom, also auto-hide) will ‘stick’ out un-hidden, i have
been unable to figure out what variables have to be met to cause it…
my panel is set to auto-hide…some times it does not…have no idea
why…i’ve not looked to see if there has been a bug logged, maybe you
will, here: openSUSE:Submitting bug reports - openSUSE
I think I know what the problem is …
It is really not a bug … it is just another annoying KDE4 bloat …
When a window displays an event, just like in kde3.5, the window icon on the panel usually gets highlighted.
I think that is the issue, I had a same “panel blocked not hidden” with Opera and the panel was again not hiding, blocking the full-sized open windows.
When I went to the Opera window showing an alert the thing returned to normal …
Unfortunately this happens without being possible to identify the “alerting window” … because the highlighted panel icon show the exact same color and contrast as the other icons (did not happen in kde3.5 btw … ) … therefore it is not possible to distinguish what exact program window is requesting attention.
Oh, and my Eclipse is running faster now and switching alt+tab in a decent manner …
I was born last Century …