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KDE4 taskbar panel oddities...

hamish

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Wednesday, March 26th 2008, 4:53pm

KDE4 taskbar panel oddities...

I've just tried out KDE4 (4.0.2) on Gentoo... Visually, it's pretty nice. Nicely rendered fonts etc. However...

One or two problems...

The new interface seems to be pretty resistant to working with a dual monitor setup... It seems to choose a screen it wants to use for all icons, menus, taskbar etc, and keep to it... No matter how much I try I can't seem to get icons or the taskbar to move to my MAIN screen instead of the one on the left that holds my status/monitoring apps... In fact dragging an icon, they just disappear when the pointer moves from one screen to another... And the taskbar will only left me set it to one of the 4 sides of my small monitor...

Then there's the taskbar itself. In KDE3 I could move the applets around, drag & drop them where I wanted. In KDE4 they seem to add to the RHS and stay there... In fact I managed to accidentally delete the 'start' menu... And when I got it added back, it's on the RHS... But I want it on the left... How do I get it back there? I don't seem to have a config tab for it like KDE3 did...

The clock... When I click on it the calendar that pops up is very nice looking... But wheras the clock is on the RHS... The popup is on the left... Similarly at the moment the 'start' menus open at the TOP of the screen instead of directly above the menu itself in the taskbar... Bug? Or config? Or by design?

Oh... i'm running the latest nvidia proprietary drivers (169.something) on a Geforce 8600GT card (256MB of RAM).

TIA
Hamish.
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Benzil

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Wednesday, May 14th 2008, 6:39am

I'm also new to KDE 4 and have the same problem as Hamish with the Application Launcher appearing on the RHS of the taskbar.

Seems a bit strange that I can't get it back on the LHS. Any help with this problem will be much appreciated, until then i'll use the nice new widget menu on the desktop ;)
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dhave

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Monday, June 2nd 2008, 12:19am

Quoted from "Benzil"

I'm also new to KDE 4 and have the same problem as Hamish with the Application Launcher appearing on the RHS of the taskbar.

Seems a bit strange that I can't get it back on the LHS. Any help with this problem will be much appreciated, until then i'll use the nice new widget menu on the desktop ;)
You should be able to drag a new menu bar icon from the Widget "container" in the upper-right corner. Just drag it to the place where you want it on the taskbar, then delete the existing menu bar icon.
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Unknown

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Wednesday, June 18th 2008, 8:22am

same here

I've got similar problems regarding the positioning of the hole kicker(?) app on a dual screen system (nvidia twin view).

My left screen is configured as the first screen (which is screen 0 ithink) in xorg.conf. All dialogues (like the shut down dialogue) appear on that screen, all desktop icons appear there, but the kicker app is on the right monitor.

Are there any settings to modify to get that kicker to my primary screen?
Furthermore are there any settings to my both screens behave as one screen regarding the desktop icons?

Thanks
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