Most likely some configuration in the panel is screwed up and sporatically causes kicker to die. The easiest way I have found to restart kicker (as occasionally it will freeze and I'll have to kill it) is:
Alt-F2 kicker Some things won't come back ON the kicker panel until you log in again (like Klipper and other Tray items), but this will give her the menu again so you can navigate, etc... I think this is a (or several minor) KDE2 bugs. KDE3 does seem to have much better stability for most things. I don't think I've seen Kicker misbehaving in KDE3. I'd look at ungrading my COL311 boxes, but I don't know whether the KControl plugins would work or show up and I value them too much. Perhaps someone on this list might be able to comment on this. Does anyone know how to plug in the System modules for KControl like Caldera does with KDE2 for COL311? On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:43:38 -0800 (PST) "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've bamboozled my wife into using Linux (told her she'd have > to do Windoze installation herself), and for a few months all > has been well with Netscape and kpatience. > > Now, the panel has gone flaky for no reason I can think of. > When she logs in, many times it's just not there, and she cannot > operate without it. I've tried a variety of things to bring it > back, but the thing that works best is simply to log out, > log in as ANOTHER user, open an xterm and exit, then log out > and go back in as herself. Go figure. > > The other user has a working panel. Always, at least so far. > It's not clear why one has to open a window, but that does > seem part of the magic. > > Does anyone have a clue, or a less painful way to deal with > this (like a permanent solution, maybe?). > > All this is a stock COL 3.1.1. workstation install, except > for the updated Netscape, and compiling and installing > kdegames. > > ++ kevin > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD (805) 650-6274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Permanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Permanent e-mail forwarder mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://kosmanor.com/~kevin/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
