<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Monospace'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Wednesday 04 February 2009 03:11:48 GN wrote:<br>
> Eli Wapniarski wrote:<br>
> > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:37:58 GN wrote:<br>
> >> Hi Folks,<br>
> >><br>
> >> I have just upgraded to F10 and I have run into a pretty basic problem<br>
> >> that I cannot seem to fix.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I have a panel at the top of the screen that I cannot add anything to<br>
> >> nor can I remove. I have managed to confine it to only one desktop by<br>
> >> clicking on the round icon at the left. There is a little box with a<br>
> >> left pointing arrow that says menu with the mouse over it but clicking L<br>
> >> or R elicits no action. To the right of the round icon is the text 'Top<br>
> >> Panel'. It is quite large and setting it to autohide still leaves quite<br>
> >> a blank white strip at the top of the screen.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Can some kind soul please tell me how I can get this panel working or<br>
> >> remove it.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Ta.<br>
> ><br>
> > Can you confirm that the widgets on your desktop are not locked.<br>
> ><br>
> > Eli<br>
><br>
> Hi Eli,<br>
><br>
> No, the widgits on the desktop or on the bottom panel are not locked.<br>
> There are no widgits on the top panel.<br>
><br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>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.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>The file is located at /home/"your username"/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletrc<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>If you don't want to loose all your desktop, you will need to make a backup of the file just in case.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>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.<br>
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