On Wednesday 02 July 2008 11:15:16 Kishore wrote: > On Wednesday 02 Jul 2008 3:22:21 pm Anne Wilson wrote: > > At the moment KDE4 (Mandriva) is unusable on this laptop because I seem > > to have broken some essentials - not sure how. The panel now has > > everything shifted to the left, and I have no entries there for open > > apps. At the same time, I can't cycle through the windows any more with > > an alt-tab. I'm sure I've seen mention, at least for the panel problem, > > of a cure which involved reinstalling a plasmoid, but I can't find the > > reference. > > > > I'm beginning to wonder whether I can cure these problems or whether I > > just have to use KDE 3 on this laptop. That would be a great pity, as my > > old, slow laptop has KDE4 without these problems. > > The easiest way to recover if you do not want your "modifications" would be > to exit plasma, dump the plasma config files and relaunch plasma. > I may have to do it that way. > OTOH if you are only missing a taskbar and want to restore it, you can do > so by dragging the taskbar widget from the "add widgets" dialog, directly > into the panel where you want it. I discovered the taskbar this morning, and have it on the desktop now, which could prove a life-saver for the moment. Putting it on the panel is not an option, as, with everything scrunched to the left, it gets put into the user-space part of the panel which is hidden. Now I have the desktop taskbar I can manage until I have time to play with this. Anne ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.