Deleted system tray

[Howard Goforth]

Thank you so much for your help
Howard

--- On Tue, 2/9/10, Alan Dacey Sr. <grokit at ajinfosearch.com> wrote:

> From: Alan Dacey Sr. <grokit at ajinfosearch.com>
> Subject: Re: Deleted system tray
> To: "Kubuntu user technical support" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 9:32 PM
> On Tuesday 09 February 2010 10:58:04
> pm Howard Goforth wrote:
> > I inadvertently deleted my system tray? I know I could
> reinstall Kubuntu,
> >  but I want to keep all my bookmarks and emails.
> Is there a relatively easy
> >  way to restore the tray?
> > 
> > Thank you for your advice
> > 
> 
> First unlock your widgets by right-clicking on the desktop
> and choosing unlock 
> widgets.  By the way, this is for KDE4, I kind of
> forgot how to do it in KDE3 
> but I think it is fairly similar.  
> 
> 
> If it is just your system tray then click on the little
> cashew on the right of 
> the panel, choose add widgets and drag the system tray
> where you want it.
> 
> If you are talking about the thing that holds your system
> tray, the clock, 
> desktops, open programs, etc - that is called a
> panel.  Since you have already 
> unlocked your widgets, right-click on the desktop again and
> choose add panel.  
> Then add all the widgets you want to it the same way as
> above.  I have Digital 
> Clock, Lancelot (I like it better than Application
> Launcher), Pager, Show 
> Desktop, System Tray, Task Manager, and some icons I
> dropped in from my menu,
> 
> 
> You really don't need to re-install everything for
> something like that, but if 
> you want to start all over from the default configuration
> you could always 
> rename the hidden .kde folder, log out and then log back
> in.  It will re-
> create .kde from scratch.  That's a bit much for this
> problem though :)  
> The .kde folder lives in your home folder, so if your user
> name is howard, it 
> would be at "/home/howard/.kde" (without the quotes).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Alan
> 
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