TASKBAR MESSED UP.

SecUpwN · January 22, 2009, 7:39pm

After a view experiments it finally hapaned: The taskbar to the Matrix disappeared.

I got it back by typing “kicker” into command line - I got the OpenSuse taskbar…I don’t like that one I switched to KDE view…but now I’m back to the old style.

How do I set the taskbar to be the one that appears right after installation, guys?

TheMask

buckesfeld · January 22, 2009, 7:54pm

TheMask,
right click the icon and select “Switch to Suse Menu Style” or “Switch to KDE Menu Style”. Not sure which one you got right now

Uwe

SecUpwN · January 22, 2009, 9:39pm

Thanks, worked. Raised your rep.

TheMask.***

vendetta18 · February 12, 2009, 12:01pm

Hey, I also messed up my taskbar and ended with no taskbar at all. Can anyone tell me how to get that back?

Thanks in advance.

buckesfeld · February 12, 2009, 7:39pm

vendetta18 wrote, On 02/12/2009 12:06 PM:
> Hey, I also messed up my taskbar and ended with no taskbar at all. Can
> anyone tell me how to get that back?

Right click the desktop, Unlock Widgets if necessary, Add Panel. Right click the panel, Add Widgets, add the Task Manager widget.

HTH
Uwe

vendetta18 · February 13, 2009, 3:18am

Thank you buckesfeld…

I got the task-bar, but how am I supposed to get the task-bar which was there when I installed my openSUSE??

I tried right-clicking the task-bar, but there are no options as “Switch to Suse Menu Style” or “Switch to KDE Menu Style” >:(

RCCrouch · February 13, 2009, 3:51am

If worse comes to worse you can always delete the .kde or .kde4 folder from your home directory, log out then log back in. The desktop will be reset to it’s original defaults. You will need to reconfigure the desktop to get it looking the way it did before.

buckesfeld · February 13, 2009, 11:45am

On 02/13/2009 vendetta18 wrote:
> I tried right-clicking the task-bar, but there are no options as
> “Switch to Suse Menu Style” or “Switch to KDE Menu Style” >:(

Uhm, that’s not the taskbar, but the application launcher menu. Add that as well, same method as adding the task bar.

Uwe

vendetta18 · February 13, 2009, 6:35pm

I tried to find the widget for “task-bar” but it is not there in my widgets. can you tell me from where i can get that

Prexy · February 13, 2009, 7:23pm

If you right-click on the desktop and select “add widgets,” near the bottom of the list will be both “System Tray” and “Task Manager.” If they are not, try reloading them by using the “install new widgets” button at the bottom of the “add widgets” dialog box.

RCCrouch · February 14, 2009, 7:15am

If you want to restore the KDE4 panel to it’s defaults open a terminal and enter the following commands.

kquitapp plasma
rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
plasma &

Thanks to Zarin (kwin dev)

deano_ferrari · February 14, 2009, 7:21am

If you want to restore the KDE4 panel to it’s defaults open a terminal and enter the following commands.

kquitapp plasma
rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
plasma &

Thanks to Zarin (kwin dev)

Good info.

vendetta18 · February 16, 2009, 8:34pm

Actually I was not looking for “system tray” or “task manager”. I was trying to get my “panel” back. I had to delete my account and create that account again. Then I got my “panel” back.(I renamed my “home” folder to “home_old”. That way I saved what I wanted, but had to do a lot of settings again.) And after I logged into the new account, the “add panel” option is showing when I right click on the desktop.This was not there before. I remember I had a “Refresh desktop” option that is not there now…

Can anyone tell me from where to add or delete options which appear when we do a right click of mouse on desktop… I am just curious