Hi Bill!
Anno domini 2019 Fri, 5 Jul 22:30:42 -0700 William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
[...] You do not have panel hiding selected in TCC->Desktop->Panels (Hiding tab) [ ] Hide automatically do you?
No, I dislike when the panel (or kicker) hides. If I could disable it completely, that would be better; but I hedge a little, because then maybe for some reason, once in a thousand days, I want to make it hide because some button or something is covered by my lower panel. That is very rare, but on those very few occasions I've wanted to make it hide, so I can imagine that it might happen again. Otherwise, I prefer to make the panel fixed right where it is.
I disabled autohiding almost from the beginneing (KDE2?), 'cause that time (on SuSE) the panel showed strange hehaviour when reappearing. since then I never missed its autohide feature. Oh, I have aded a hotkey to put apps on top of everything, if needed.
Nik
To restart, use Alt+F2
dcop kicker kicker restart
or
dcop kicker Panel restart
"Panel" is a dcop alias for "kicker" but may not be present in your system. You can always open an konsole (or an xterm) and type
dcop kicker (now look at list)
then to see what you can do, just add any of the next items listed, e.g.
dcop kicker kicker (now you should see restart())
- When I unlock the panel, and move round the icons, it gets totally
messed up. Even if I lock it, the icons keep moving round, and again, this behavior survives through reboots and shutdowns. When at last I get my icons to behave, and lock the panel and leave it alone.
Log out of TDE, then switch to another desktop (or use ctrl+alt+f2 to switch to a text terminal and login) then move or delete kickerrc to force restoration of the default panel:
mv ~/.tde/share/config/kickerrc ~/.tde/share/config/kickerrc.sav
Now log back into TDE.
For 2 & 3, I have tried killing the panel by running pkill kicker, then restarting, but this doesn't work so well. When it does work at all, the panel appears on only one out of my 20 desktops, and again, this sometimes persists through multiple reboots.
Of course, TDE settings and configs are persistent and most are stored in ~/.tde/share/config
I will give the rest of these suggestions a try. I dug down deep into the config files when I ran KDE3, but for the most part I have just copied them over to the appropriate place in TDE, when I can find them. Sometimes they have been changed in such a way that I cannot preserve my settings, because the config files are no longer text files in some instances, but xml and other extensions.
In any case, I have managed to restore my panel (i.e., kicker, or kicker-trinity, or maybe it will get renamed ticker?). I'll report my results after I explore these issues further.
Bill
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