Toolbar gone!

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Although I have installed and configured RH and SLES/SLED many times, including setting up clusters, iPrint and GroupWise, I am far from proficient. Here’s what happened:

I set up openSUSE on a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop for my 17-year-old son (he prefers Linux to Winders; smart kid). He did the following:

Right-clicked on the desktop
Selected Add widget
Icon appeared on the toolbar. He didn’t like it.
Right-clicked the widget
Selected Remove action

While I am here, is there any online tutorial or course of instruction that he can pursue so that he can gain some proficiency himself?

Thanks all,
Richard White
Austin, Texas

Whole toolbar disappeared. We have since recovered, somwhat, by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting Add panel, but it doesn’t have the same features as the default toolbar. Can we get it back?

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Which KDE are you using, 4.4.4, 4.5 or 4.5.1?

Can you see the cashew on the top right corner of the screen?

Romanator

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If you are pressed for time, a quick 'n dirty way to resolve this is:

  1. Log out and log in in Console Login.
  2. Type in: mv .kde4 .kde4-backup
  3. Type in: rm -fR .kde4
  4. Type in: startx
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> Which KDE are you using, 4.4.4, 4.5 or 4.5.1?

Not at laptop now. Installed from latest stable.

> Can you see the cashew on the top right corner of the screen?

So that’s what that is! IOW, yes.

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The cashew is called the Toolbox. I would highly recommend experimenting with the Activities feature.

This new feature allows you to select and save wallpapers with different desktop settings.

Enjoy and experiment!

Romanator

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Sorry for the delay. Here’s what happened:

This did, indeed, bring the toolbar back. However, the network doesn’t work, even though it queries for the wireless ‘secrets’ and I provide them. I went round and round with this before and the SUSE expert here at work fixed it.

I will examine the .kde4-backup file to see if I can find what I need there. There are two different network management tools (apart from YaST, which isn’t helpful).

We also have some difficulties with the video, for which my expert blames the Intel video adapter (he recommends Nvidia). Well, as it is a laptop, that’s not something we can swap out.

Thanks, and best regards,
Richard in Austin

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Hey Richard,

I would recommend installing:

plasmoid-networkmanagement

Use this command:

zypper in plasmoid-networkmanagement

This will replace the old knetworkmanager with this new one.

Good Luck!

Romanator