On Thursday 03 July 2008 05:38:40 Kishore wrote: > On Wednesday 02 Jul 2008 4:00:55 pm Anne Wilson wrote: > > > 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. > > Which version of kde are you at? 4.1 beta? only the 4.1 series has the > option to horizontally resize the panel. If this is 4.0 then something is > really screwed and dumping config files is perhaps the best option. 4.0.5, I think. I need some detail, Kishore. I tried to dump the config files but found them recreated exactly the same, so I think I missed a step. First - what must I do to ensure that plasma is stopped? Then, am I looking for any more config files than the two in ~/.kde4/share/config ? > > > Now I have the desktop taskbar I can manage until I have time to play > > with this. > > Well! A taskbar on the desktop, behind all other windows, does not really > make much sense. Does it!? ;-) Not much, but definitely better than nothing. Until I get this sorted I can use windows that don't cover it, but it's definitely a temporary workaround. 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.