Restoring functionality to KDE4

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 03 July 2008 11:00:40 Kishore wrote:
> On Thursday 03 Jul 2008 2:14:21 pm Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > $kquitapp plasma
> > > $rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*
> > > $plasma
> >
> > I've not come across kquiitapp before.
>
> kquitapp is a helper application is kde4 that sends dbus commands to the
> application requesting it to quit. I am not sure in what way it is better
> than kill but it does seem to be the kde4 way to quit.
>
> > I'm putting together some end-user
> > help docs, so if you could point me to a reference page I'd be grateful.
>
> maybe look at http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Plasma/FAQ
> and http://software-libre.rudd-o.com/KDE_4.0.0_emergency_FAQ. The commands
> i listed are also mentioned in the former link.
>
Thanks.  I'm pretty sure I've already seen the Plasma FAQ, unless there is 
more than one, but it's certainly worth reading again.

> > I thought for a moment that plasma hadn't started, but it's just that, as
> > for the last week or two, the panel does not show up until I change the
> > size. It's most odd, as I don't need to do anything else.
>
> That is odd indeed. I have never experienced that before. Just curious..
> how do you change the size when the panel is not visible? I only know one
> method to access the panel configuration and that is through the panel
> context menu.
>
I imagine the panel is in fact running, but for some reason invisible.  A 
right-click on the area where you would expect it to be brings up the context 
menu.

> > The panel now shows everything I would expect, but in a strange order.
> >  All the system icons are at the left and the running programs are to the
> > right of the clock.
> >
> > That's no big deal, but it is odd.
>
> You sure that is not the defaults as set by the distribution or maybe even
> upstream? IIRC there was a time in kde trunk recently when the order of
> default applets in the panel was changed. The clock was no longer at the
> right end and some other things like that. It made me a little
> uncomfortable as i would want all "always present" stuff to _always_ be at
> the same place so i dont have to take that moment to spot it. Anyway, its
> now back to the old way.

Yes, that's why I like to arrange everything consistently.  It saves a lot of 
time and effort.

In this case, though, it can't be anything to do with either Mandriva or 
upstream, since my ancient laptop is running the same version as this (the 
Acer) and everything is as expected there.

Oh, yes, one thing I discovered after the last reply - clicking on the clock 
brings up the shadow of a box, but no calendar.  Again, the calendar display 
is perfect on the old laptop.  Peculiar.

Anne
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