[kde-linux] How to delete default launchers in taskbar?

[Lita Letourneau]

Hello Alex,

I am using OpenSUSE 12 also...have not run into a problem with 
mine...have you unlocked widgets in panel options?  Also, make sure you 
have permission to delete...I looked at my taskbar icon for KompoZer and 
it is owned by ROOT...that may be the issue??? Try logging in as root 
and delete them from there and re-log in as user and see if that helps...

Hope this does the trick...if not, check back & I will see if I can get 
mine to act like yours in an effort to fix it :0)

Sincerely,

Lita M. Letourneau, B.S.
IT Director, MyPCMyWay.com
PISD Substitute Teacher
Professional Mom

On 08/02/2012 02:49 AM, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 03:27:36 +0000 (UTC)
> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Alex Schuster posted on Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:38:57 +0200 as excerpted:
>>
>>> Thomas Taylor writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi KDE users,
>>>> I am  using KDE 4.8.4 under openSuSE 12.x and would like to remove the
>>>> Dolphin and Firefox launchers from the taskbar.  I can remove them on
>>>> each startup but after a while they return.
>>>>
>>>> My default file manager is Krusader which I added to the startup list
>>>> in Desktop Configuration.  I don't use Dolphin and those launchers take
>>>> up space that has better uses (6 active desktops).  Is there a way to
>>>> PERMANENTLY remove those launchers?
>>> For me (4.8.4 on Gentoo Linux) it's just a matter of unlocking widgets,
>>> right-click on the launcher and removing it. I have no idea what would
>>> bring them back on openSUSE, this is not normal.
>> Gentoo here as well (but I've been running the 4.9 pre-releases... 4.9-
>> rc2 aka 4.8.97 currently, IIRC 4.9.0 is due approximately... tommorrow!).
>>
>> But I actually don't run a taskmanager plasmoid at all; I put other
>> things on my panels and use alt-tab or grid-desktop or the window-list
>> (which I have the desktop configured to popup with a middle-click), or
>> since I have a full-size dual-1080p-monitors-in-stacked-config desktop,
>> simply arrange windows so none are fully hidden, and use scroll-on-
>> desktop to switch desktops...
>>
>> That's why I hadn't responded before.
>>
>> But wonko's correct.  If you set the configuration up the way you want,
>> then reboot or restart kde and have it stay thru that first initial
>> reboot (some settings only only get saved on desktop shutdown, so doing
>> that immediately after finishing the config should lock it in, as well as
>> test that it really took), then LATER have it revert on you...
>>
>> Something's wrong!
>>
>> The first thing I'd guess is a corrupted filesystem and or unstable
>> system, that's eating configuration files.  I'd do a thorough fsck and
>> see.  If it fixes some stuff and you do another fsck within a couple days
>> and there's a lot more for it to fix, BACKUP ANY DATA YOU WANT TO SAVE
>> BECAUSE YOUR DISK IS VERY LIKELY DYING!
>>
>> Actually, anybody not having tested backups by definition doesn't really
>> care about their data in the first place, so you should already have
>> them, but double-checking that they're current and that it's actually
>> possible to recover from them's a very good idea.
>>
>>
> Thanks, Duncan.  I'll give that a try tomorrow when my eyes aren't crossed!
>
> Tom  8<))
>