Fedora 9 no menu panel in KDE 4.

popatopalous · 05-13-2008, 09:26 PM

Very soon after fresh install of F-9 I lost my menu panel in KDE. I have separate / and /home partitions. I did another fresh install to / and still have no menu panel so it must be a file in /home [/etc? config?] that is at fault. Any ideas how to fix???

ranger_nemo · 05-13-2008, 09:35 PM

Well, everything on the desktop is now a widget. So, I would try going through the "add a new widget" whats-it and adding a new panel, and whatever you wanted on it.

Otherwise, you can try renaming /home/you/.kde to something else, and logout/login to see if it will rebuild it. That's where it stores all the user's config settings for KDE.

popatopalous · 05-13-2008, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ranger_nemo

Well, everything on the desktop is now a widget. So, I would try going through the "add a new widget" whats-it and adding a new panel, and whatever you wanted on it.

Otherwise, you can try renaming /home/you/.kde to something else, and logout/login to see if it will rebuild it. That's where it stores all the user's config settings for KDE.

For me there is no widget that creates a menu panel. Why?

popatopalous · 05-13-2008, 09:47 PM

I tried moving /home/you/.kde and that didn't help.

djgerbavore · 05-14-2008, 08:45 AM

Or log in as another user and see if the problem persist.

popatopalous · 05-14-2008, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by djgerbavore

Or log in as another user and see if the problem persist.

Thanks, I should of thought of that.

The_Spider · 05-16-2008, 10:04 AM

I got mine to come back after I moved my .config, trashed my .kde and trashed my /tmp/*-username.

This is probably not the right thing to do, but it worked. I must say my first impressions of KDE4 are pretty, well, not impressed (not related to this issue). Its all to gimmicky and not conducive to actually using my PC.

I don't like Gnome's no-configuration attitude either. I might move to XFCE or something....

PTrenholme · 05-18-2008, 09:41 AM

The menu "widget" is the "Application Launcher Menu" item in the "widget" list. (The third item, IIRC.)

It give you a nice hierarchical menu, similar to the KDE 3 one, which I prefer to the new, Ubuntu style, application menu in KDE 4.