kde-4.2

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Sun Mar 1 22:09:26 UTC 2009


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 01 March 2009 19:33:40 Jim wrote:
>   
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 01 March 2009 18:01:14 Jim wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Sunday 01 March 2009 17:11:04 Jim wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> This is part of the Panel Config.  You can get that either from the
>>>>>>> Panel Settings menu (right-click on empty taskbar) or by hitting the
>>>>>>> small cashew at the extreme right of the panel.  When that panel is
>>>>>>> open, hovering over the icon will change the cursor to a diamond, at
>>>>>>> which point you can drag the icon to any position you want.  You
>>>>>>> probably will want to do this with any new launch icons you add, to
>>>>>>> get them into the order you prefer.  Before you leave, check out the
>>>>>>> More Settings, just so that you know what the choices are.  Leave by
>>>>>>> hitting the red X.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anne
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> I moved one Icon at left, over one spot,  and then the panel "tray"
>>>>>> extended out to cover 50% of the panel, how do you resize the tray,
>>>>>> same with clock.
>>>>>> This Panel in KDE-4.2 is the screwiest  thing I've ever seen.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Sorry, I can't answer that.  I have 4.2 on three different systems
>>>>> (hardware and software versions) and don't have that problem.  I can't
>>>>> even guess the cause.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anne
>>>>>           
>>>> I'm using 4.2 also.
>>>>         
>>> I'm just wondering if something left over from the updates is causing
>>> this. Try renaming these two files
>>> ~/.kde4/share/config/plasmarc
>>> ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
>>>
>>> and re-start KDE.  You will lose any configuration you've done, but it
>>> will be a clean start, and hopefully will then hold the settings you
>>> make.
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>       
>> I renamed the two files to .bak and it generate new ones but it had no
>> affect on Panel/Tray.
>>     
>
> The method Colin gave you would have been better.  Try that.
>
>   
>> The only thing I seen different was it deleted the Linked Icons I had
>> made on Desktop folder.
>> Since this is a new install , I login to Root and deleted the  User I
>> setup  and made a new one, which gives me a new
>> Panel/Tray, I will just have to Link new Icons on Desktop/Folder.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this.  You can certainly have launch icons on 
> the panel.  Is that now what you mean?
>
>   
>> Some place in .kde/share/config will have to be settings for Panel .
>>     
>
> Change the settings using the gui tools provided.
>
> Anne
>
>
>   
The only draw back is there is no way to resize the "Tray" which covers 
50% of panel.




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