Kubuntu 9.04 - system tray and panel lost! Nearly totally stuck!

[Antonio Augusto (Mancha)]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 04:40, vt <punktyras at nkm.lt> wrote:
> On 2009 m. Balandis 28 d., antradienis 03:01:24 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> > Is there any software you could recommend me to UNinstall and
>> > afterwords freshly reinstall in order to get back the panel and system
>> > tray??? Is there any other way to fix this problem??!!
>>
>> It doesn't work that way in Linux. In Windows, when you uninstall and
>> reinstall you are removing your user config files. Not so in Linux.
>
> ...unless you use --purge flag while uninstalling:
> $sudo apt-get --purge remove somepacket
> or
> $sudo apt-get purge somepacket
>
> Program managers have this option too. At least synaptic has.
>
> exc. from "man apt-get":
> purge
>           purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed and
>           purged (any configuration files are deleted too).
>       --purge
>           Use purge instead of remove for anything that would be removed. An
>           scheduled to be purged.  remove --purge is equivalent for purge

Purge remove system wide configuration files, user files (~/.firefox,
~/.vimrc and stuff like that) never get purged by apt, dpkg or
anything else. The only way to get rid of these, is erasing then by
hand.

> Again, I have problems with the system tray and panel. They simply do
> not appear any more. A few times I tried to get them back as follows:
> via terminal > sudo mc > I copied .kde to .kde-orig and than I deleted
> recursively the .kde directory. After restarting the computer, I hoped
> to get back the panel and system tray, because I had done so when I
> experienced a similar problem with Kubuntu 8.10. But now, no system
> tray and panel do come back after restarting the system.
>

Click with the right button on the desktop and select "Add Widgets"
(or whatever it is called in your language).
Then look for a widget called "Panel" and drag and drop it to your
desktop, leaving it where you want it to be.

Try it and report your results.

Cheers