How do I start the KDE Taskbar?

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DerekLarsson

Beginner

Posts: 2

Tuesday, December 12th 2006, 10:44pm

How do I start the KDE Taskbar?

Sorry, if this seems like a dumb question, but the KDE Taskbar on my Mandrake 10.1 Linux system always just automatically started up by default (standard behavior).

While I was working, I must have inadvertantly clicked on something that made the KDE Taskbar completely disappear and exit (no arrow buttons or anything to make it redisplay/reappear).

I tried running 'kcontrol' and also 'kcmshell kcmtaskbar' but this did not give me any facility to restart the Taskbar.

I tried right-clicking on the desktop, and looking around in /usr/bin/..
but I could not find any way at all to restart-up the KDE Taskbar.

So my question: Just how do I start-up the KDE Taskbar?

On MS Windows, no big deal .... what's the trick here with KDE-??

Thanks, in advance, for all helpful replies.

- Derek

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "DerekLarsson" (Dec 12th 2006, 10:45pm)

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bram85

Professional

Posts: 948

Location: Eindhoven

Occupation: Software Engineer

Thursday, December 14th 2006, 5:53pm

RE: How do I start the KDE Taskbar?

You can add new panels by opening the Kicker menu (you can open it with the little arrow between two applets). Click Add New Applet and choose the Taskbar from the list.

Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)

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DerekLarsson

Beginner

Posts: 2

Thursday, December 14th 2006, 9:32pm

RE: How do I start the KDE Taskbar?

I'm not quite sure exactly what you mean.

On my KDE desktop, once the TaskBar is gone, I then have no access to any application icons or any of the menu facilities that come from the taskBar. So, all I really see on my monitor are some desktop icons and whatever windows I had currently open (which may not be anything).

Given that, I'm not sure how I would invoke this "Kicker Menu" or where I would find it.

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bram85

Professional

Posts: 948

Location: Eindhoven

Occupation: Software Engineer

Thursday, December 14th 2006, 10:25pm

RE: How do I start the KDE Taskbar?

Alt+F2 and run the 'kicker' command if that's what you mean. There's some confusion with "task bar" and "panel" which are two different things.

Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)

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