KDE4 FC9 taskbar dead

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 17 May 2008 04:07, Mick M. wrote:
> > Hi;
> >   I have dolphin, terminal and firefox on my
> taskbar.
> > They were working just fine.
> > I copied a bunch of mp3 files from my portable
> player onto my system.
> > It was taking a really long time and seemed to
> slow the system down
> > considerably. We are talking more than 10 seconds
> for a mouse click to
> > register. So I unplugged the usb device.
> > Now when I hover my mouse over any of the taskbar
> icons it pops up a des
> > ription balloon.
> >
> > But clicking on it does nothing.
> > It does highlight the background of the icon but
> does not run the app.
> >
> > Going to "F" (shouldn't that be "K") and selecting
> "firefox" runs it.
> > I have logged out and back in.
> > I have also rebooted.
> >
> Hmm - just wondering.  I changed my theme because I
> had some problems seeing 
> the oxygen theme, and since then I am also having
> problems with non-response 
> to clicks.  That suggests to me that whatever has
> changed it is coincidental 
> to the things we did.  Let's hope that Kevin has
> some ideas on this :-)
> 
> Anne
> 
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I had something like this happen to me.  I hesitated
to ask, fixed it by deleting .kde directory altogether
from booting into level 3, restarted the machine and
set things up again and it worked for me.  I know it
is not an elegant solution, but I wanted the panel to
work.

Regards,

Antonio