Hi Bill! Anno domini 2019 Fri, 5 Jul 22:30:42 -0700 William Morder via trinity-users scripsit: > > [...] > > You do not have panel hiding selected in TCC->Desktop->Panels (Hiding tab) > > [ ] Hide automatically do you? > > No, I dislike when the panel (or kicker) hides. If I could disable it > completely, that would be better; but I hedge a little, because then maybe > for some reason, once in a thousand days, I want to make it hide because some > button or something is covered by my lower panel. That is very rare, but on > those very few occasions I've wanted to make it hide, so I can imagine that > it might happen again. Otherwise, I prefer to make the panel fixed right > where it is. I disabled autohiding almost from the beginneing (KDE2?), 'cause that time (on SuSE) the panel showed strange hehaviour when reappearing. since then I never missed its autohide feature. Oh, I have aded a hotkey to put apps on top of everything, if needed. Nik > > > > To restart, use Alt+F2 > > > > dcop kicker kicker restart > > > > or > > > > dcop kicker Panel restart > > > > "Panel" is a dcop alias for "kicker" but may not be present in your system. > > You can always open an konsole (or an xterm) and type > > > > dcop kicker (now look at list) > > > > then to see what you can do, just add any of the next items listed, e.g. > > > > dcop kicker kicker (now you should see restart()) > > > > > 3. When I unlock the panel, and move round the icons, it gets totally > > > messed up. Even if I lock it, the icons keep moving round, and again, > > > this behavior survives through reboots and shutdowns. When at last I get > > > my icons to behave, and lock the panel and leave it alone. > > > > Log out of TDE, then switch to another desktop (or use ctrl+alt+f2 to > > switch to a text terminal and login) then move or delete kickerrc to force > > restoration of the default panel: > > > > mv ~/.tde/share/config/kickerrc ~/.tde/share/config/kickerrc.sav > > > > Now log back into TDE. > > > > > For 2 & 3, I have tried killing the panel by running pkill kicker, then > > > restarting, but this doesn't work so well. When it does work at all, the > > > panel appears on only one out of my 20 desktops, and again, this > > > sometimes persists through multiple reboots. > > > > Of course, TDE settings and configs are persistent and most are stored in > > ~/.tde/share/config > > I will give the rest of these suggestions a try. I dug down deep into the > config files when I ran KDE3, but for the most part I have just copied them > over to the appropriate place in TDE, when I can find them. Sometimes they > have been changed in such a way that I cannot preserve my settings, because > the config files are no longer text files in some instances, but xml and > other extensions. > > In any case, I have managed to restore my panel (i.e., kicker, or > kicker-trinity, or maybe it will get renamed ticker?). I'll report my results > after I explore these issues further. > > Bill > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
