Panel problems on F10

[GN]

Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 06:22:59 GN wrote:
>  > Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>  > > 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
>  >
>  > Hi Eli,
>  >
>  > Thank you for the info. My plasma-appletsrc file follows. It all looks
>  > OK. I now think it was some cross contamination from Gnome because just
>  > to check I logged out and back in to a Gnome session and there was a top
>  > panel with all the applets I was trying to add to the top panel I didn't
>  > want in KDE. Logging back into a KDE session the rogue top panel was
>  > gone. Thank you very much indeed for your help.
> 
> 
> OK... Great to hear that you found the culprit. Since you've narrowed it 
> down to some kind of interaction between Gnome and KDE I don't think the 
> panel-appletrc file is neccessary. It might be a good idea to indicate 
> exactly you did in Gnome. What applets were loaded etc.
> 
> 
> It might be a good idea to do what you did again to confirm that it is 
> indeed a problem and not some intermittent thing caused by the 
> transition from KDE 4.1 to 4.2, or some update from Gnome.
> 
> 
> If the problem persists, and after you post the steps you took to cause 
> the problem, I or somebody else will certainly try to find the time to 
> try to confirm the problem.
> 
> 
> Maybe, if someone is using a different distro on our side can find the 
> time to find out if its a KDE problem or some problem with Fedora 
> integration. If in fact some special things were done in Fedora to try 
> to integrate KDE and Gnome (maybe somebody can shed some light on this 
> to indicate what if any integration was done). Then we can know with 
> whom to file a bug report either KDE or Fedora. This kind of thing 
> should not happen.
> 
> 
> Eli

OK. Thanks Eli. I will get back to you and let you know what I found. 
Way back in the days starting with RedHat 6 I was a KDE user. Along the 
upgrade route somewhere I changed to Gnome. After upgrading to Fedora 9 
I switched back to KDE (I have always used several KDE applications and 
consequently have always had KDE installed) simply by logging in to a 
KDE session which then became the default desktop by default (last 
session used). I had no problems in F9. The problem was there right from 
the first boot and login after upgrading to F10 and all subsequent 
logins until I found the cause. It is more than likely to be associated 
with the F9 to F10 upgrade in my opinion rather than a problem in KDE. 
The rogue panel has not reappeared. Will get back to you.

Thank you again for your help.

-- 
Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols.
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