[nflug] KDE Panel AWOL

[John G. Boice]

John G. Boice wrote:
> David Mangani wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  I generally use gnome but decided to take a look at the 'newer" KDE
>> I think I d'loaded 3.5.5. Its the latest available thru Ubuntu's
>> repositories. Here is my question. I was playing around with
>> transparencies and such for the panel and now my panel is totally
>> gone. I have all of my desktop icons but I can not access any of the
>> applications, menu's or such. I'm not sure how to access the system
>> controls to reset the transparency option which obviously isn't
>> working right. Any ideas short of a reinstall of KDE? If I knew the
>> command for the "control center?" application I could start it from a
>> terminal.
>>
>> TIA
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>     
> Hi, Dave.
>
> Try this:
> Right-click anywhere on the wallpaper part of the desktop, and choose
> "configure desktop"  from the drop down menu.
>
> Then under "behavior" you can set the left-click mouse to open your
> applications menu.
>
> Then you will at least not be totally locked out. 
>
> I'll poke around and see what further might need doing, but that should
> get you started.
>
> John
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>   
OK, #2:

If you can get to the apps menu, go to  system> system configuration
[settings] > desktop > panels


and see what you can do from there.

Good luck!
John
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