Hi Bill!

Anno domini 2019 Fri, 5 Jul 22:30:42 -0700
 William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
> > [...]
> > You do not have panel hiding selected in TCC->Desktop->Panels (Hiding tab)
> > [ ] Hide automatically do you?
> 
> No, I dislike when the panel (or kicker) hides. If I could disable it 
> completely, that would be better; but I hedge a little, because then maybe 
> for some reason, once in a thousand days, I want to make it hide because some 
> button or something is covered by my lower panel. That is very rare, but on 
> those very few occasions I've wanted to make it hide, so I can imagine that 
> it might happen again. Otherwise, I prefer to make the panel fixed right 
> where it is. 

I disabled autohiding almost from the beginneing (KDE2?), 'cause that time (on SuSE) the panel showed strange hehaviour when reappearing. since then I never missed its autohide feature. Oh, I have aded a hotkey to put apps on top of everything, if needed.

Nik

> >
> > To restart, use Alt+F2
> >
> >   dcop kicker kicker restart
> >
> > or
> >
> >   dcop kicker Panel restart
> >
> > "Panel" is a dcop alias for "kicker" but may not be present in your system.
> > You can always open an konsole (or an xterm) and type
> >
> >   dcop kicker          (now look at list)
> >
> > then to see what you can do, just add any of the next items listed, e.g.
> >
> >   dcop kicker kicker   (now you should see restart())
> >
> > > 3. When I unlock the panel, and move round the icons, it gets totally
> > > messed up. Even if I lock it, the icons keep moving round, and again,
> > > this behavior survives through reboots and shutdowns. When at last I get
> > > my icons to behave, and lock the panel and leave it alone.
> >
> > Log out of TDE, then switch to another desktop (or use ctrl+alt+f2 to
> > switch to a text terminal and login) then move or delete kickerrc to force
> > restoration of the default panel:
> >
> >   mv ~/.tde/share/config/kickerrc ~/.tde/share/config/kickerrc.sav
> >
> > Now log back into TDE.
> >
> > > For 2 & 3, I have tried killing the panel by running pkill kicker, then
> > > restarting, but this doesn't work so well. When it does work at all, the
> > > panel appears on only one out of my 20 desktops, and again, this
> > > sometimes persists through multiple reboots.
> >
> > Of course, TDE settings and configs are persistent and most are stored in
> > ~/.tde/share/config
> 
> I will give the rest of these suggestions a try. I dug down deep into the 
> config files when I ran KDE3, but for the most part I have just copied them 
> over to the appropriate place in TDE, when I can find them. Sometimes they 
> have been changed in such a way that I cannot preserve my settings, because 
> the config files are no longer text files in some instances, but xml and 
> other extensions. 
> 
> In any case, I have managed to restore my panel (i.e., kicker, or 
> kicker-trinity, or maybe it will get renamed ticker?). I'll report my results 
> after I explore these issues further. 
> 
> Bill 
> 
> 
> 
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