Panel problems on F10

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Wednesday 04 February 2009 03:11:48 GN wrote:
> Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:37:58 GN wrote:
> >> Hi Folks,
> >>
> >> I have just upgraded to F10 and I have run into a pretty basic problem
> >> that I cannot seem to fix.
> >>
> >> I have a panel at the top of the screen that I cannot add anything to
> >> nor can I remove. I have managed to confine it to only one desktop by
> >> clicking on the round icon at the left. There is a little box with a
> >> left pointing arrow that says menu with the mouse over it but clicking L
> >> or R elicits no action. To the right of the round icon is the text 'Top
> >> Panel'. It is quite large and setting it to autohide still leaves quite
> >> a blank white strip at the top of the screen.
> >>
> >> Can some kind soul please tell me how I can get this panel working or
> >> remove it.
> >>
> >> Ta.
> >
> > Can you confirm that the widgets on your desktop are not locked.
> >
> > Eli
>
> Hi Eli,
>
> No, the widgits on the desktop or on the bottom panel are not locked.
> There are no widgits on the top panel.
>

The panel itself is a widget. I suspect something has corrupted in your kde 
profile. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. However, I believe that if you log 
off. Either log in as root and travel to you home folder and edit plasma-
appletrc you should be able to edit this file and remove any "[Containments]" 
with panel plugins.

The file is located at /home/"your username"/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletrc

If you don't want to loose all your desktop, you will need to make a backup of 
the file just in case.

You will be looking for containment stanzas lines that begin with 
[Containment][(followed by a number)] (ie [Containments][12]). Within that 
stanza there should be a line that reads plugin=panel. There could very well 
be more than one of these. If you that stanza, and then log back in as you, 
the panel should be gone.

Eli


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