Hi, everybody . . .
This may be a bug. I have my taskbar set with the tiny icons and application names. Yesterday, after latest upgrade (which I do from the near-stable branch daily), the names disappeard, leaving me with a wad of tiny icons only. If in the Configure Kicker > Taskbar settings I set the display to Text only, the tiny icons grow very dim but don't quite disappear, but the text does not appear. I have made no changes other than upgrade/update.
This is on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS running R14.0.12 [DEVELOPMENT]. -- dep
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On 2022/04/23 01:11 AM, dep wrote:
Hi, everybody . . .
This may be a bug. I have my taskbar set with the tiny icons and application names. Yesterday, after latest upgrade (which I do from the near-stable branch daily), the names disappeard, leaving me with a wad of tiny icons only. If in the Configure Kicker > Taskbar settings I set the display to Text only, the tiny icons grow very dim but don't quite disappear, but the text does not appear. I have made no changes other than upgrade/update.
This is on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS running R14.0.12 [DEVELOPMENT].
dep
Hi dep, make sure you are editing the config of the correct taskbar. There is a "global taskbar" settings and a "per taskbar" settings. There has been no changes to that area so maybe something else messed up for some reasons?
HTH Cheers Michele
said Michele Calgaro via tde-devels: | On 2022/04/23 01:11 AM, dep wrote: | > Hi, everybody . . . | > | > This may be a bug. I have my taskbar set with the tiny icons and | > application names. Yesterday, after latest upgrade (which I do from | > the near-stable branch daily), the names disappeard, leaving me with a | > wad of tiny icons only. If in the Configure Kicker > Taskbar settings | > I set the display to Text only, the tiny icons grow very dim but don't | > quite disappear, but the text does not appear. I have made no changes | > other than upgrade/update. | > | > This is on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS running R14.0.12 [DEVELOPMENT]. | > -- | > dep | | Hi dep, | make sure you are editing the config of the correct taskbar. There is a | "global taskbar" settings and a "per taskbar" settings. | There has been no changes to that area so maybe something else messed up | for some reasons?
Thanks, Michele.
I got it fixed, but it was a strange repair. In KControl > Configure Kicker
Configure the arrangement of the panel, I for no particular reason just
now changed it from bottom center to bottom left. (Actually, there *was* a reason -- it was to make the "Apply" button clickable. When Kicker dies, as it occasionally, to bring it back to life I need to do something in KControl to make "Apply" come to life. Clicking it then restarts Kicker.) Anyway, when I moved the configuration location from center to left, the previous, desired, taskbar configuration returned. (It doesn't matter which of the bottom positions is chosen, normally, because I have length at 100 percent anyway.)
No idea if this has anything to do with any bug, or if it's unique to my installation, which has been updated/upgraded over an existing install since, I think, kubuntu 12.04, so it may well have some artifacts. It's possible that it is a wonder it runs at all. -- dep
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On 04/23/2022 10:55 PM, dep wrote:
When Kicker dies, as it occasionally, to bring it back to life I need to do something in KControl to make "Apply" come to life.
Maybe this is not convenient to do this. If it happens to me (quite rarely) I just hit Alt+F2 (or right click on desktop -> Run command), type in 'kicker' and press Enter.
-- Philippe
On 2022/04/25 09:14 PM, Mavridis Philippe wrote:
Maybe this is not convenient to do this. If it happens to me (quite rarely) I just hit Alt+F2 (or right click on desktop -> Run command), type in 'kicker' and press Enter.
+1, same here. Kicker rarely dies (unless I am doing some testing with changed code) and when it dies, I do exactly the same thing.
cheers Michele
said Michele Calgaro via tde-devels:
| On 2022/04/25 09:14 PM, Mavridis Philippe wrote: | > Maybe this is not convenient to do this. If it happens to me (quite | > rarely) I just hit Alt+F2 (or right click on desktop -> Run command), | > type in 'kicker' and press Enter. | | +1, same here. | Kicker rarely dies (unless I am doing some testing with changed code) | and when it dies, I do exactly the same thing.
It doesn't often die here, either, but it does occasionally and has across multiple versions and multiple distributions, each time in the same fashion: it just disappears.
The suggested method to restart it was the first thing I tried, and it failed to work. Alt-F2 > KControl > Panel change something, change it back, hit Apply is the only thing that has consistently worked. I have no idea why this is. If it were a more regular problem I'd dig into it more, but it happens once a month at most. -- dep
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