Eli Wapniarski wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 03:11:48 GN wrote: > > Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:37:58 GN wrote: > > >> Hi Folks, > > >> > > >> I have just upgraded to F10 and I have run into a pretty basic problem > > >> that I cannot seem to fix. > > >> > > >> I have a panel at the top of the screen that I cannot add anything to > > >> nor can I remove. I have managed to confine it to only one desktop by > > >> clicking on the round icon at the left. There is a little box with a > > >> left pointing arrow that says menu with the mouse over it but > clicking L > > >> or R elicits no action. To the right of the round icon is the text > 'Top > > >> Panel'. It is quite large and setting it to autohide still leaves > quite > > >> a blank white strip at the top of the screen. > > >> > > >> Can some kind soul please tell me how I can get this panel working or > > >> remove it. > > >> > > >> Ta. > > > > > > Can you confirm that the widgets on your desktop are not locked. > > > > > > Eli > > > > Hi Eli, > > > > No, the widgits on the desktop or on the bottom panel are not locked. > > There are no widgits on the top panel. > > > > > The panel itself is a widget. I suspect something has corrupted in your > kde profile. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. However, I believe that > if you log off. Either log in as root and travel to you home folder and > edit plasma-appletrc you should be able to edit this file and remove any > "[Containments]" with panel plugins. > > > The file is located at /home/"your > username"/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletrc > > > If you don't want to loose all your desktop, you will need to make a > backup of the file just in case. > > > You will be looking for containment stanzas lines that begin with > [Containment][(followed by a number)] (ie [Containments][12]). Within > that stanza there should be a line that reads plugin=panel. There could > very well be more than one of these. If you that stanza, and then log > back in as you, the panel should be gone. > > > Eli Hi Eli, Thank you for the info. My plasma-appletsrc file follows. It all looks OK. I now think it was some cross contamination from Gnome because just to check I logged out and back in to a Gnome session and there was a top panel with all the applets I was trying to add to the top panel I didn't want in KDE. Logging back into a KDE session the rogue top panel was gone. Thank you very much indeed for your help. [graeme at flintstone config]$ cat plasma-appletsrc [Containments][1] formfactor=0 geometry=0,0,1440,900 immutability=1 location=0 locked=false plugin=desktop screen=0 wallpaper=/usr/share/wallpapers/Solar/contents/images/1440x900.png zvalue=0 [Containments][1][Applets][9] geometry=33,36,78,78 immutability=1 locked=false plugin=icon zvalue=2 [Containments][1][Applets][9][Configuration] Url=file:///home/graeme/Desktop/fedora-yakuake.desktop [Containments][2] formfactor=2 geometry=0,-46,1440,40 immutability=1 location=4 locked=false plugin=panel screen=0 size=48 zvalue=150 [Containments][2][Applets][11] geometry=0,3,37,37 immutability=1 plugin=simplelauncher zvalue=0 [Containments][2][Applets][4] geometry=41,3,1089,37 immutability=1 locked=false plugin=tasks zvalue=0 [Containments][2][Applets][5] geometry=1134,3,60,37 immutability=1 locked=false plugin=pager zvalue=0 [Containments][2][Applets][6] geometry=1198,3,103,37 immutability=1 locked=false plugin=systemtray zvalue=0 [Containments][2][Applets][7] geometry=1305,3,37,37 immutability=1 locked=false plugin=notifier zvalue=0 [Containments][2][Applets][8] geometry=1346,3,74,37 immutability=1 locked=false plugin=digital-clock zvalue=0 [Containments][2][Applets][8][Configuration] plainClock=true plainClockColor=255,255,255 plainClockFont=Fixed,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 plainClockFontBold=false plainClockFontItalic=false showDate=true showDay=true showTimezone=true showYear=false timezone=Australia/Sydney [Containments][2][Configuration] maximumSize=1440,40 minimumSize=1440,38 [General] immutability=1 locked=false [graeme at flintstone config]$ -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. ... Registered Linux User 381781 (http://counter.li.org/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - There are no saints, only unrecognised villains. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
