Thanks but I found the answer by doing a www.ask.com search on "restore taskbar" Here it is! KDE should have a facility for this! https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/23130 KDE should have a lot of things. I got rid of the Gnome panel remnant by ps -ef|grep -i panel kill -9 nnnn logging in and rebooting did nothing! ---------------------------------------- > From: cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: kde@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:19:44 +0100 > Subject: Re: lost task manager(?) icons showing minimized active tasks > > On Saturday 23 August 2008 05:28:12 landon kelsey wrote: >> Trying to fix the problem and now I have a blank Gnome panel >> >> at the top! >> >> I need to remove it! >> > I presume that you don't really mean a Gnome panel, or you wouldn't be asking > a kde list :-) > > It sounds as though your plasma settings have become corrupt. Depending on > which distro yoiu are using, go to ~/.kde(or .kde4)/share/config/ and delete > plasmarc and plasma-appletsrc. They will be recreated when you log in > again. > > Anne _________________________________________________________________ Get thousands of games on your PC, your mobile phone, and the web with Windows®. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/108588800/direct/01/ ___________________________________________________ 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.