On my laptop (Opensuse 12.1 64bit KDE 4.7.2) I have some problems with the panel. Suddenly all the System tray icons and the clock have moved from the right to the left. I tried to move them back and I can move them into any position as long as the mouse is clicked over the item. As soon as the mouse is released the icons move back. The clock then suddenly appeared on the desktop outside the panel and cannot be moved back to the panel. When I try to add another default panel (so that I can delete the non functioning panel later) the screen turns quickly blank (black) and when it comes on again there is no second panel and the original panel is unchanged. How can I set the panel back to its usual settings?
Cheers
Uli
> Suddenly all the System tray icons and the clock have moved
> from the right to the left.
“suddenly” things usually have a cause…either the user changed
something or some new software or hardware was installed…
i guess the panel’s setting got clobbered, so try this:
-right click on desktop, select “Unlock Widgets” (if it says “Lock
Widgets” then you are usually running with the widgets unlocked which is
a REALLY good way to allow stuff to “suddenly” change, unintentionally…
imho, one should always run with the widgets locked)
-after selecting “Unlock Widgets” right click on the cashew on the right
edge of the panel
-in the just popped up panel setting bar, click on “More Settings” where
you will see “Panel Alignment” options of Left, Center and Right…
i guess your panel “suddenly” was changed from Center to Left, or from
Right to Left…if Left is the current setting, try selecting
Center…if that is not the way you want it, try selecting Right…
then, to close the panel settings dialog just left click the desktop,
then right click and select “Lock Widgets”
let us know how you get on…
–
dd
Thanks dd for the reply. The laptop is used by my wife and I can say no more than “suddenly” as I don’t know what happened. Now I still cannot get the digital clock which has moved back on to the panel and the taskbar seems to stay empty. I can see with Alt+Tab what windows are open but not from the taskbar. I could move the system tray to the right but that is all. When I try to put another default panel on the screen still goes blank and then I get the error “We are sorry the Plasma Desktop Shell closed unexpectedly … Details Executable: kdeinit4 PID 1839 Signal: Segmentation Fault (11)”. I did on command:
ps -ef | grep 1839
uli 1839 1 0 14:56 ? 00:00:11 kdeinit4: plasma-desktop [kdeinit]
uli 1841 1839 0 14:56 ? 00:00:00 [ksysguardd] <defunct>
So something is wrong with ksysguard?
Any Idea?
Uli
I should have copied the whole output. After reinstalling ksysguardd I restarted the computer and tried the same. Same error message (except this time it was PID 1818). The commandline output:
ps -ef | grep 1816
uli 1816 1 6 15:40 ? 00:00:06 kdeinit4: plasma-desktop [kdeinit]
uli 1818 1816 0 15:40 ? 00:00:00 [ksysguardd] <defunct>
uli 2216 1719 1 15:41 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/drkonqi -display :0 --appname plasma-desktop --kdeinit --apppath /usr/bin --signal 11 --pid 1816 --appversion 0.4 --programname Plasma Desktop Shell --bugaddress submit@bugs.kde.org --startupid 0 --restarted
uli 2255 2243 0 15:42 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto 1816
Try adding a new user and see if the problem is there also it may be the configuration files have gotten messed up
If so removing or renaming of the ~/.kde4 directory for that bad user will put thing back to day one but you will then have to re-setup the desktop since all setting are back to default.
Thanks gogalthorp, renaming .kde4 did the trick. However it willt take me a while to reset everything as we want it. I wondered, there are so many configuration files in .kde4. I copied the previous kmail2rc file in there (after renaming the new one) to save me resetting everything there. I was looking for a “panelrc” of “desktoprc” or similar. Is there a documentation somewhere where we can see which config file does what? Would be so much easier to delete only the corrupt file and not all the KDE settings.
Cheers
Uli
Look for files with plasma in the name. Most likely areas.
I’ve had a different problem with the panel that I thought might go away when I eventually update to 12.2, so I’ve been ignoring it. Some kde apps don’t seem to appear in the panel (or task bar?) when minimized. Kaddressbook doesn’t minimize everytime, it closes instead. I frequently find that when I open a console, it shows <2> in the title bar but I can find no other instance of it running. Dolphin occasionally exhibits the same behavior as these two. I also frequently run with widgets unlocked. I’m at kde 4.8.4 if that means anything.