Taskbar disappeared

[lotech]

For unknown reason the taskbar disappeared, how to I put it back ?

[kubicle]

Re: Taskbar disappeared

For unknown reason the taskbar disappeared, how to I put it back ?

You mean the whole kicker panel or just the taskbar applet (the one with buttons for open windows)?

If the former, try restarting kicker or if that doesn't work open up panel dialog

kcmshell panel

And edit panel settings (like panel position) and click apply and it should bring up the panel again (you can change it back if you like after that).

If the latter, right-click on panel and choose add applet>taskbar

[ricnmar]

Re: Taskbar disappeared

This also happened to me!

Delete the kickerrc file (from /home/%user%/.kde/share/config) and then restart the system. The default kicker will load in all of its beauty.

[rattler]

Re: Taskbar disappeared

For unknown reason the taskbar disappeared, how to I put it back ?

That happens to me several times a day. Sometimes as much as 4 or 5 times a day. To restart the kicker : right-click the desktop, click RUN COMMAND, then type: kstart kicker.

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[lotech]

Re: Taskbar disappeared

Thanks, it came back after start.

[lotech]

Re: Taskbar disappeared

Thanks, it came back after restart.

[AndrewK]

Re: Taskbar disappeared

I found this thread when I came looking to solve the same problem. But the comment "This happens to me several times a day" has me worried. Is losing the kicker a common thing? Any way to prevent it?

Thanks!

[Fenyx]

Re: Taskbar disappeared

Nah, it's not a common thing. In Breezy, it was, at least for me. It crashed several times. I've had no Kicker related crashes in Dapper.

[blobfish]

Re: Taskbar disappeared

I had (thanks to this thread it is had and not have) this problem. I wasn't loosing kicker and the kcmshell panel command and turning off the hiding worked for me. I just run without hiding to avoid this problem. I'm using edgy. In dapper you could control this in the system settings dialog, but in edgy it has been removed. I wonder why.

[Fenyx]

Re: Taskbar disappeared

The goal was to make System Settings as lightweight was possible, removing settings that can be more logically found in some other place, like the Panel settings when you right-click the panel. Unfortunately, they were not aware of this KDE issue. I've already brought this to their attention, so hopefully it will be returned in Feisty.