grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

[maksimkogan]

Upgraded to 8.10, strange bar appeared at the top of the screen after the restart. Bar only appears after logging in to KDE, not at the login prompt. don't even know where to begin troubleshooting. Bar is not clickable and is automatically on top of all windows and the panel (used to have it at the top... until now). Tried playing with screen resizing and the ATI catalyst control center with no luck. Screenshot attached.

[Snowhog]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

It appears as if you set a screen geometry that is larger than the desktop geometry. What is reported for your display size under K Menu > System Settings > Display > Size & Orientation ?

[maksimkogan]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

Sorry, forgot to mention I've looked at that already. It's showing the same 1680*1050@60HZ as it's always been. Just noticed one interesting thing, when I hit expose, the bar disappears while all the windows are being displayed, upon selecting one and getting back to the desktop the bar re-appears.

[Snowhog]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

Right-click on the desktop and select Desktop Settings...
What is the setting for Positioning: ?

[maksimkogan]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

Scaled and cropped, just tried changing to all other available options, no change. Wouldn't that option only account for the wallpaper though? This seems more like the gray area is not being recognized as part of the screen.

[Snowhog]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

In K Menu > System Settings > Display > Size & Orientation when you click on Size: what other resolutions are listed?

[lethal666]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

How large is your monitor.

[maksimkogan]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

In K Menu > System Settings > Display > Size & Orientation when you click on Size: what other resolutions are listed?

There are quite a few listed: 1440*900 1400*1050 1280*1024 1280*960 1280*768 1280*720 1152*864 1024*768 800*600 720*480 640*480 640*432 640*400 512*384 400*300 320*240 320*200

The monitor is 20", 1680*1050 native resolution.

[lethal666]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

Try 1024*768

[maksimkogan]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

As mentioned previously, I've tried resizing to several sizes, the bar persists throughout the change. What may be of note is that the bar always accounts for the same percentage of the screen rather than staying a set physical size when changing resolutions.

[lethal666]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

does the bar say anything?

[maksimkogan]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

Bar is solid gray, as in the screenshot. While hovering no tooltiptext pop-ups, and it's not right-clickable.

[lethal666]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

Are you using a laptop or a desktop computer

[maksimkogan]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

Desktop.

[lethal666]

Re: grey non-clickable bar at the top of the screen after upgrade

Go to your monitors menu and look for an auto configure or something along those lines.your problem is with your monitor not with your os