Eli Wapniarski wrote:
On Thursday 05 February 2009 06:22:59 GN wrote:
> Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 03:11:48 GN wrote:
> > > Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:37:58 GN wrote:
> > > >> Hi Folks,
> > > >>
> > > >> I have just upgraded to F10 and I have run into a pretty basic
> > > >> problem that I cannot seem to fix.
> > > >>
> > > >> I have a panel at the top of the screen that I cannot add
anything
> > > >> to nor can I remove. I have managed to confine it to only one
> > > >> desktop by clicking on the round icon at the left. There is a
> > > >> little box with a left pointing arrow that says menu with the
mouse
> > > >> over it but
> >
> > clicking L
> >
> > > >> or R elicits no action. To the right of the round icon is the
text
> >
> > 'Top
> >
> > > >> Panel'. It is quite large and setting it to autohide still
leaves
> >
> > quite
> >
> > > >> a blank white strip at the top of the screen.
> > > >>
> > > >> Can some kind soul please tell me how I can get this panel
working
> > > >> or remove it.
> > > >>
> > > >> Ta.
> > > >
> > > > Can you confirm that the widgets on your desktop are not locked.
> > > >
> > > > Eli
> > >
> > > Hi Eli,
> > >
> > > No, the widgits on the desktop or on the bottom panel are not locked.
> > > There are no widgits on the top panel.
> >
> > The panel itself is a widget. I suspect something has corrupted in your
> > kde profile. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. However, I believe that
> > if you log off. Either log in as root and travel to you home folder and
> > edit plasma-appletrc you should be able to edit this file and
remove any
> > "[Containments]" with panel plugins.
> >
> >
> > The file is located at /home/"your
> > username"/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletrc
> >
> >
> > If you don't want to loose all your desktop, you will need to make a
> > backup of the file just in case.
> >
> >
> > You will be looking for containment stanzas lines that begin with
> > [Containment][(followed by a number)] (ie [Containments][12]). Within
> > that stanza there should be a line that reads plugin=panel. There could
> > very well be more than one of these. If you that stanza, and then log
> > back in as you, the panel should be gone.
> >
> >
> > Eli
>
> Hi Eli,
>
> Thank you for the info. My plasma-appletsrc file follows. It all looks
> OK. I now think it was some cross contamination from Gnome because just
> to check I logged out and back in to a Gnome session and there was a top
> panel with all the applets I was trying to add to the top panel I didn't
> want in KDE. Logging back into a KDE session the rogue top panel was
> gone. Thank you very much indeed for your help.
OK... Great to hear that you found the culprit. Since you've narrowed it
down to some kind of interaction between Gnome and KDE I don't think the
panel-appletrc file is neccessary. It might be a good idea to indicate
exactly you did in Gnome. What applets were loaded etc.
It might be a good idea to do what you did again to confirm that it is
indeed a problem and not some intermittent thing caused by the
transition from KDE 4.1 to 4.2, or some update from Gnome.
If the problem persists, and after you post the steps you took to cause
the problem, I or somebody else will certainly try to find the time to
try to confirm the problem.
Maybe, if someone is using a different distro on our side can find the
time to find out if its a KDE problem or some problem with Fedora
integration. If in fact some special things were done in Fedora to try
to integrate KDE and Gnome (maybe somebody can shed some light on this
to indicate what if any integration was done). Then we can know with
whom to file a bug report either KDE or Fedora. This kind of thing
should not happen.
Eli
OK. Thanks Eli. I will get back to you and let you know what I found.
Way back in the days starting with RedHat 6 I was a KDE user. Along the
upgrade route somewhere I changed to Gnome. After upgrading to Fedora 9
I switched back to KDE (I have always used several KDE applications and
consequently have always had KDE installed) simply by logging in to a
KDE session which then became the default desktop by default (last
session used). I had no problems in F9. The problem was there right from
the first boot and login after upgrading to F10 and all subsequent
logins until I found the cause. It is more than likely to be associated
with the F9 to F10 upgrade in my opinion rather than a problem in KDE.
The rogue panel has not reappeared. Will get back to you.
Thank you again for your help.
--
Kind regards,
Graeme Nichols.
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Registered Linux User 381781 (
http://counter.li.org/)
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