Eli Wapniarski wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2009 06:22:59 GN wrote: > > 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. > > > OK... Great to hear that you found the culprit. Since you've narrowed it > down to some kind of interaction between Gnome and KDE I don't think the > panel-appletrc file is neccessary. It might be a good idea to indicate > exactly you did in Gnome. What applets were loaded etc. > > > It might be a good idea to do what you did again to confirm that it is > indeed a problem and not some intermittent thing caused by the > transition from KDE 4.1 to 4.2, or some update from Gnome. > > > If the problem persists, and after you post the steps you took to cause > the problem, I or somebody else will certainly try to find the time to > try to confirm the problem. > > > Maybe, if someone is using a different distro on our side can find the > time to find out if its a KDE problem or some problem with Fedora > integration. If in fact some special things were done in Fedora to try > to integrate KDE and Gnome (maybe somebody can shed some light on this > to indicate what if any integration was done). Then we can know with > whom to file a bug report either KDE or Fedora. This kind of thing > should not happen. > > > Eli OK. Thanks Eli. I will get back to you and let you know what I found. Way back in the days starting with RedHat 6 I was a KDE user. Along the upgrade route somewhere I changed to Gnome. After upgrading to Fedora 9 I switched back to KDE (I have always used several KDE applications and consequently have always had KDE installed) simply by logging in to a KDE session which then became the default desktop by default (last session used). I had no problems in F9. The problem was there right from the first boot and login after upgrading to F10 and all subsequent logins until I found the cause. It is more than likely to be associated with the F9 to F10 upgrade in my opinion rather than a problem in KDE. The rogue panel has not reappeared. Will get back to you. Thank you again for your help. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. ... 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