On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 8:58 AM, James Colby <jcolby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Is the "phantom" icon still responsive to context-clicks and does it still >> display a tooltip (assuming you don't have that turned off) if hovered >> over? > > Yes to both. > >> >> What happens if you toggle desktop effects off? Does the icon disappear? >> (There's a default keyboard shortcut for toggling it, tho I've changed >> mine. The default is... looking it up... alt-shift-f12 .) > > Nothing changes with the system tray icons when I toggle the desktop effects > >> >> What happens if you try killing plasma-desktop (from krunner or a konsole >> window, traditional SIGTERM method: killall plasma-desktop, kde/dbus >> method: kquitapp plasma-desktop), then restarting it? Is the icon still >> there, or now gone? > > This is strange, restarting plasma-desktop does remove the icon but it > leaves a blank space in the system tray where the icon was located. > Which makes for a really awful looking system tray. > >> >> I'm wondering if it's simply an OpenGL or similar display glitch, tho >> given the different hardware and drivers you've tried, I don't really see >> how it could affect all of them. None-the-less... >> >> Also, do try playing with the systray config options for that icon. When >> it's still shown, does setting the systray option to hide that icon hide >> it, or...? > > The systray config options treat the "phantom" icons as expected. It > will hide the icon when asked, and it is show when 'show hidden icons' > >> >> And finally, does ps/top/ksysguard/system-activity (the last being >> available from the icon in krunner) still show the app after you've "quit" >> it, or does it disappear from process list at that point? > > Once I have quit the application, the process does disappear from the > process list. > >> -- Upgrading QT from 4.6.2 to 4.6.3 resolved the issue. Thanks for the suggestions all. ___________________________________________________ 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.