Regain KDE4 Taskbar

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#1

If you are like me, and go messing with the KDE4 Taskbar & Desktop and happen to loose it, try to restore it and it goes to the top of the desktop, or whatever, here is a tip to get it back:

press Ctrl+Esc and kill “Plasma” – the screen will go blank
press alt +F2 to open the “Run Command” window
use that to open “konsole”

Now you should have a terminal
Type “konqueror”, navigate to /home/yourname
goto “show hidden files” in the View context menu
delete the folders ./kde and ./kde4

back in the terminal type “plasma” & enter
You should have the taskbar back and in the original location.
Now you can start messing around yet once again:)

BTW, I recommend making a separate install solely for KDE4 and messing around with it. Me. I decided to not risk screwing up my KDE-3.5.9 install:D

Have fun:)

#2

Hi,

thanks for the tip. I never tried it like that. whenever I mess up KDE4 (which happens often) or an upgrade messes me up (which also happens often) i just do it like this:

either:
boot into runlevel 3 when the pc is off

or:
in X hit <ctrl><alt><f2> for a console tty

log in on the console as my normal user

rm -rf ~/.kde*
sudo reboot

it does suck that Everything is gone at that time, antialiasing, compisiting, font sizes, effect, etc. but after 99times it is easy to recover.

stefan

#3

Another workaround is always welcome. I have to ask myself, “why didn’t I think of that?”:slight_smile:

#4

On 06/29/2008 stefan1975 wrote:
> rm -rf ~/.kde*

But doesn’t that delete personal data, too? I’m thinking of kmail et al.

Uwe

#5

You are absolutely correct.

That’s why I went to a separate KDE4 install along with a separate KDE-3.5.9 production install.

With the 1st KDE4 update, I lost the Kmenu launcher on the taskbar; trying to fix that, lost the taskbar; etc; etc.

#6

On snakedrivers instructions to regain the taskbar i deleted both ./kde and ./kde4 but ./kde4 keeps popping back into the folder , so it doesnt stay deleted like ./kde does… is it suppose to do that
if not why isnt./kde4 staying deleted?

#7

in .kde4 are all your settings, you delete it, you lose settings. the reason this keeps coming back is creating a place where to put these new settings, it will come back, just not contain the old data. don’t worry…it’s meant to happen (and i don’t mean losing the task bar). this is one reason why i have switched back to kde3.5.9

#8

I tried it as per snakedriver’s instructions and whammo sammo, works well for me.

#9

There is no need to delete the entire KDE4 directory just to regain the taskbar, it is enough if you delete the files ‘plasmarc’ and ‘plasma-appletrc’ from the directory ‘.kde4/share/config’. This way most of the settings of the other applications like kmail, etc. are preserved.

#10

Good info to know:)

#11

I just screwed up this way! Thanks a lot for your recovery tips!