[kde-linux] disappearing panel

[James Richard Tyrer]

mike wrote:
> Hello --
> 
> I have this strange problem. The panel is set up to hide automatically. And it 
> does, but occasionally it does not reappear when I move the mouse to the 
> bottom of the screen.  I have been able to "resurrect" the panel by launching 
> kcenter from an incidentally open terminal window. There, I would simply go 
> to configuring panel, click OK, and the panel would start functioning 
> normally. However, it happened, that the panel disappeared and i had no 
> terminal windows open. Restart did not solve the problem. So, i cannot launch 
> anything (from k menu) because the panel does not show up. 
> 
> Can someone help me, please, to get the panel back and solve the problem with 
> its occasional disappearing.

If Kicker crashes, KDE is supposed to restart it.  So, that probably 
isn't the cause here.

I also have problems with panels sticking but for me, they stick 
unhidden and don't auto-hide.  I have not been able to find the problem.

-- 
JRT