Got mine back. Don't know if this is the only or best
solution, but apparently what I had before and what
disappeared was an "external" taskbar, which is
another bar sitting above the panel. I right clicked
on the panel / add / external taskbar and it's back.
My open programs show there.
--- Charles Punch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is weird. I just decided to try KDE after using
> GNOME for a few
> weeks. It seems that while I was away, KDE ate my
> taskbar and I can't
> seem to get it to come back with any of the
> settings. I had just
> minimized my mail reader to do something else and
> when I went to
> maximize it, the taskbar was gone. I had to log out
> and restart x server
> to get my modem back and log into GNOME. Ironically,
> the first mail I
> read was yours. I wish I had an answer for you, but
> all I can say is "we
> are not alone." Maybe the aliens are using our
> taskbars for a source of
> power or something eh?
>
> ShalomOut
> Chal
> Elder PCUSA
> Registered Linux user # 217118
>
> Order and simplification are the first steps toward
> mastery of a subject
> -- the actual enemy is the unknown.
> -- Thomas Mann
>
> Peter Rymshaw wrote:
> >
> > This has got to be related. When I open my KDE
> window,
> > the panel is empty until I pass the curser across
> it
> > and then things appear as if I had painted them on
> > with the sweep.
> >
> > --- Peter Rymshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > All of a sudden I have no Taskbar. Used to be
> that
> > > when I minimized a program an icon would appear
> at
> > > the
> > > screen bottom, now nothing there except the
> panel
> > > (not
> > > containing the minimized program).
> > >
> > > Manual says that minimizing sends to Taskbar,
> which
> > > is
> > > usually in top right corner. I don't see
> anything
> > > there, and, like I said, they used to drop down
> to
> > > the
> > > bottom (the Panel?).
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Pete R.
> > >
> >
> >
>
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