Closed windows remain in taskbar under KDE4+Compiz

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#1

Howdy,

My title states the problem: I have openSuSE 11.0, with KDE4.1 and Compiz, very pretty, on my HP Pavillion dv9205us (4GB RAM, nVidia w/ 256M).
When I close an app, its name stays in the taskbar. Right click yields a menu, although nothing happens if I click a menu option. If I open another app, it appears on the taskbar after the bogus one, so I’m losing panel real estate.
What makes the matter tolerable is that if I switch to a different desktop, and then back again, the taskbar is correct, but I wonder if anyone else has had this problem and fixed it, or if this is just a bug.

GEF

#2

Though i don’t know a fix for your problem you can close windows by one of the following:

  1. Open the window which you wanna close and press Ctrl+Alt+Esc, the mouse cursor will become skull shaped, now just click on the window it’ll be closed.

  2. Press Ctrl+Esc, select the thing which you wanna close and click “Kill Process”

#3

freedguy, this will close the respected apps without them being able to save their settings, which can cause problems.

#4

gropiuskalle, you’re right. Its not an alternative to closing windows normally.

#5

I’ve found a thread describing the exact same problem → [kubuntu] Closed windows stuck in taskbar in KDE4 - Ubuntu Forums](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=974778), so I guess it’s worth being reported to bugs.kde.org.