On Thursday, April 07, 2011 09:56:22 AM phanisvara das did opine: > On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:33:29 +0530, gene heskett <gheskett@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday, April 07, 2011 08:48:42 AM Gopaladeva Dasa did opine: > >> > Toss in that the app launcher/pager/date-time & dock bar is totally > >> > missing on workspace 1 now. > >> > >> I did not have that problem. Everything appears just as it should. > >> > >> G > > > > I used PCC to add another user, who did not have that problem with the > > default user profile that was installed. But that users firefox and > > konsole screens were still bereft of the usual top bar decorations > > with the whole top bar being sensitive to a right click, which > > brought up the move to another workspace menu. And when I went to > > log out, the requester that opened was all piled up on itself and I > > wound up actually doing a reboot, and on the reboot, and logging back > > in as me, I am back to my original complaint except now I only have a > > cashew on workspace 1. I can use the other workspaces, but no > > decorations other than the taskbar at the bottom. > > > > This seems to be the difference, so how do I go about restoring the > > cashew on the other workspaces? > > > > I don't have room on this partition to copy all my stuff over, its > > only 30 gigs and my email corpus uses 20 some of it. Next time I > > install, I'll give /home 300 gigs and /usr 300 if its lucky. ;-) > > Terrabyte drives, 4 of them, with 2 of the others available for > > re-use. One has amanda's virtual tapes on it. > > > > Thanks for any clues. > > i also don't have any problems with KDE 4.6.2. re. the missing top bar > buttons, perhaps try another desktop style / theme? if it was me, i > would create a new user and slowly copy configuration files from > ~/.kde4 into that user, until things don't work anymore. that should > help to figure out where the problem comes from. I tried that. The new user also has no top bar of a window decorations. Wandering around in ~/.kde4, I found a bunch of what look like junk directories in .kde and .kde4 subdirs of .kde4 and nuked those, but what seems odd is that there are a lot of *rc files in .kde4/share that not even root can look at with less, no error when root tries, just no response. And my konsoles are AFU again, foreground & background colors are randomized but matched, so one can't see the output till he does a mouse drag over the output to highlight it. mc seems to be slowly self destructing too. I may yet have to re-install on a different drive. :-( -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: He was giving it last rites. ___________________________________________________ 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.