KDE-Forum.org

Hello -- I have what I hope is an easy question, but it's stumped me. I also haven't gotten any help on the Ubuntu forums; hopefully someone here will know the secret!

I have the "Mac-like" (application sensitive) menubar enabled in KDE 3.5.0. It looked great, except I went to put the Clock applet up in the bar, and in doing so, all the menus shifted from the left side of the bar, to the right side of the bar. Even if I move the clock around, they remain pushed all the way to the right, against either the edge of the bar, or the clock, if I put it there.

I can give a screenshot if anyone wants to see it.

I've never seen an option for menu positioning, and I can't figure out how to move them.

How do I get the menus back over against the left hand side, where they belong??

Thanks in advance!

I just tried some experiments to see if I could fix this...

I wiped out ALL of my KDE user-specific settings that i could find, the entire contents of the .kde folder, restarted X, and when I logged in the menubar was gone.

I re-enabled the menu bar by doing Configure Desktop, and the menus are STILL stuck on the right!!!

So the problem isn't in my user config files, it's somewhere in the global ones, only I never set them this way. Very frustrating.

If anyone has any ideas at all, please let me know. It is absolutely obnoxious to have those menus off on the right hand side, and moreover it just seems bizarre that there is not an option that I can find to control it.

I actually found, after much experimentation and no help from the documentation at all, a way to move the menus back to the left side where they belong.

I still think this is a bug though, since they jump to the center/right without being told to move, simply by adding an applet (and I filed a report on it in the KDE tracking system), but there is a workaround/fix.

First, right click on an empty part of the menu bar and choose Unlock Menu (if it is locked).

Second, position your mouse cursor over the File menu, and then slide it slowly left. If you hover your cursor over an area JUST LEFT of the file menu, a little black downward-pointing arrow will appear. Click on this.

This will produce a drop-down menu, the first option of which is MOVE MENU. Choose this, and your cursor should change to a compass-type icon. You can now drag the menus back to their proper place on the left.

I suggest once you get them, and whatever other applets you want (clock, sound, KDE menu, etc.) situated, that you then lock the menu, by R-clicking on an empty part of the menu and choosing Lock Menu.

Hope this helps you. I can't believe this took me literally weeks to find, but AFAIK it's entirely undocumented. The little drop-down menu that lets you move the menu, will also let you delete it. If you delete it, then it will appear in the list of Applets that it's possible to Add, I think. But if you already have it up there, then it won't.

Cute, huh? Good luck.