Get ready to Laugh. KDE question

[Nosferatu]

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Ok I am playing around with KDE, and somehow I killed the taskbar on the bottom. I have spent the last 35 minutes looking for the dang thing. Where did it go?
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[WallyKid]

click on start here>>perferences>>Desktop>>Panel ................Try it.

 

[Arrgghh]

He he. I've done that playing with x-kill under Mandrake. The only way I got it back was to hit ctl+alt+del, and log out then log back in again.

I would like to hear a better solution to this ummm, problem 🙂

 

[Derango]

<< click on start here>>perferences>>Desktop>>Panel ................Try it. >>



If he killed the taskbar on the bottom, this is going to be a little hard for him to do 🙂

 

[Nosferatu]

hmmmm.....
man all those times i laughed at people who couldnt use windows has come back to haunt me.

There is no start button and I have learned the whole control panel (i think)

logging off and logging back on doesnt help

restarting doesnt help.

i tried changing the resolution thinking it might be hidden and that didnt help.

its like I erased it from existance or something..........

$^()$%($^(&*$

 

[Nosferatu]

<< If he killed the taskbar on the bottom, this is going to be a little hard for him to do <http://subscriber.anandtech.com/i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif> >>




that explains that. LOL
now where did it go George?

 

[mcveigh]

from the command line remove the .kde directory in you home directory. the next time kde will start up with defaults.

rm -r .kde

edit: notice the . before kde

 

[cleverhandle]

I haven't used KDE in a long while, but this sounds a lot like similar problems in GNOME. Basically, you always wanted to keep at least one panel with the main menu on it. If you wiped it, things got ugly because you lost access to the main command menu completely. The only easy way to revert was to wipe your personal configuration directory (.kde), as mcveigh said. Very ugly "solution" if you had a lot of preferences set. If you don't want to do that, you might try creating another user, starting up KDE with him, and then running diff on the two .kde directories to try to figure out what you need. But not knowing anything about the KDE config files, I don't know how/if that would work.

 

[Nosferatu]

ok. i think i really hosed the OS. the command line thing didnt work either.
all it does is flash a brief appearence of the taskbar and then blink and its gone.

any last ideas before i reinstall?

by the way thank you for the suggestions 🙂

 

[Nosferatu]

ok ill give that a shot


*edit*

ok I cant figure out how to add a new user. I think i am going to reinstall.
The distribution I was using was redmond. As a newbie it was a lot easier to navigate and use than Mandrake.
Kinda surprised because I always thought Mandrake was the easiest. If it wasnt for the taskbar going away. I was beginning to get the hang of some of the basic things....

 

[mcveigh]

to add a user from command line
useradd name
passwd name
enter password

then try and login with it.

try removing all .kde starting directories from home directory