How do you fix a panel in KDE 4.2.2?

[Jerry Lapham]

On Thursday 03 September 2009 4:33:09 pm clay weber wrote:

> Jerry Lapham wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 September 2009 8:43:12 am clay weber wrote:
> >> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >>> 2009/9/3 Cary Bielenberg <cary at bielenberg.id.au>:
> >>>> On 03/09/09 09:05, Jerry Lapham wrote:
> >>>>> Trying to use the touch pad on my new laptop, I accidentally  lost
> >>>>> the desktops, open applications, the network connection, and perhaps
> >>>>> some others. I can't find any way to add them back.  I don't remember
> >>>>> the keyboard method for switching desktops because I've never needed
> >>>>> it before so I'm stuck on desktop 1.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Help!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>       -Jerry
> >>>>
> >>>> Jerry,
> >>>>          i find it easiest to do the following   sudo rm -r
> >>>> ~/.kde/share/config
> >>>> when you log back in it will recreate your taskbar etc, you will have
> >>>> to reset up your favorites & walpapers etc.
> >>>> '
> >>>
> >>> DO NOT DO THIS!
> >>>
> >>> It will erase all you KDE aplications' configurations, such as Kmail.
> >>> Find the right file and rename (not delete) it. Only delete it when
> >>> you are done.
> >>
> >> I agree here. Are you missing the entire panel? or just the widgets on
> >> it? have you tried re-adding these back via the right-click menu on your
> >> desktop? You need to add a taskbar to the panel as well as any of the
> >> other widgets such as the pager (for multiple desktops) and the network
> >> manager widget.
> >>
> >> Once you have these items back, whichever way you get there, you can
> >> 'lock' them via the right-click menu
> >>
> >>
> >> clay
> >
> > I was just missing some of the widgets.  I normally run Folder View so I
> > didn't see that the pager, digital clock, and the taskbar had just been
> > moved out of the panel and onto the desktop.  I've moved them back, so
> > that part's OK.  However, I can't find the network manager widget on the
> > add widgets list or on the desktop.  I used to have something right next
> > to the battery widget that showed the status of wicd and opened wicd with
> > a single click.  I assume that was network manager?
> >
> > 	-Jerry
>
> Wicd uses KDE's system tray, you might check to see that it is added to
> your panel, I don't believe that wicd has any sort of plasma widget, and
> by installing wicd, it removes the network-manager stuff, including the
> knetworkmanager widget as they conflict with wicd
>
> clay

That was it.  Thanks,

	-Jerry
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