On 05/06/2019 10:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I should add, that it was also gone from the list htop shows, as I have a 
> habit of running a root session of htop as one of the "background things 
> I find handy to kill an errant process with.  So it was well and truly 
> gone, and I restarted it from a konsole.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

When it happens, from konsole you should be able to use dcop to restart it with:

  $ dcop kicker Panel restart

or

  $ dcop kicker kicker restart

You can list the available options with, e.g.

  $ dcop kicker Panel

or

  $ dcop kicker kicker

and you should see:

void restart()

available for each.

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.