Kmail - how to resize columns

[Alvin]

On Wednesday 19 August 2009 06:41:42 Mark Halegua wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 August 2009 02:58:11 pm John L Vifian wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 August 2009 10:28:02 am Mark Halegua wrote:
> > > Well, I tried the backport to 4.3, and it certainly made some changes.
> > >  Still couldn't resize the columns, and on rebooting the system, the
> > > plasma said it couldn't do something, but couldn't give me details to
> > > send in. Now, the task bar doesn't appear and trying sudo apt-get
> > > update to try and fix it keeps telling me a pubkey isn't correct, and
> > > to use apt-get update to fix it, which it doesn't and keeps repeating
> > > the message.
> >
> > Rightclick on the desktop and choose add panel then right click on the
> > panel and add the appropriate widgets: "Application Launcher", "System
> > Tray", "Task Manger", "Trashcan", "Digital Clock", "Device Notifier" and
> > "Pager" to duplicate what I have.
> >
> > John Vifian
>
> Right-clicking on the desktop does nothing for me.  The error I get says
> Plasma has crashed.  When I try to do a backtrace, it won't saying the
> system may have been corrupted.
>
> Luckily I had my /home directory in a separate partition.  I can install
> from scratch and it won't affect my mail, local apps, or settings.

Putting your /home on a separate partition is thoughtful, but in this case, I 
would first try to fix the installation. This isn't Microsoft Windows where 
you reinstall for shortcuts with the wrong icons.

The pubkey is asked here every other day. There is a link to the instructions 
on the front page of http://www.kubuntu.org

Useful links:
http://www.kubuntu.org/faq/PPA-keys
https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/InstallingSoftware

Now, just try the following:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade