22 Apr
2022
22 Apr
'22
4:11 p.m.
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].
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23 Apr
23 Apr
1 p.m.
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].
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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
7:55 p.m.
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.
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25 Apr
25 Apr
12:14 p.m.
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.
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3:06 p.m.
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
3:13 p.m.
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.
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