A few things for you...
First, it sounds like your current desktop *may* be showing the
Activities desktop. (Hitting Alt-D then Alt-A reveals the activity
switcher). While activities can be fun to play with, it's probably not
quite what you want.
Next, you *could* delete your /home/youruser/.kde folder. This would
reset KDE to a default environment. BUT, and a BIG BUT!! - you would
loose all your personalization and application configurations.
Last option I can think of - within your .kde folder, there is a config
file you can remove to just reset the panels to the default. But I
don't recall which file. A Google search for "kde recover panel" should
lead you in the right direction - I hope.
Hope that helps, and good luck.
Shawn
On 11-05-30 08:55 PM, Richard Carter wrote:
Hendrik,
Thsnks for your detailed help. I think I got most of it right. I now
have a panel containing the icons for most of my applications.
But I can't have done everything correctly because the desk top looks
like it did a few days ago. There is a wide strip at the top containing
icons labeled "KMail" and "System Settings". Just below that is a box
containing "Enter your query here". Then there is a set of 10 icons
which mimic entries in "Applications Launcher". I tried right clicking
on the desk top hoping to make further adjustments but nothing happened.
Robin
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Hendrik Schaink <hscha...@infovisi.com
<mailto:hscha...@infovisi.com>> wrote:
> Check and see if your Desktop activity setting were changed by:
> 1) right-click somewhere on empty Desktop space
> 2) click on "Folder View Activity Settings" -- a new window opens
> 3) click on icon Activity in the left pane
> 4) if you want the behaviour of KDE 3.5, I recommend you set Type to
> "Folder View" (Desktop View is quite different); press Apply button
> 5) click on icon Location in the left pane
> 6) KDE 3.5 location to display the desktop is by using folder Desktop.
> Verify that "Show the Desktop folder" is clicked, press Apply.
>
> Hope that gets you started in the right direction.
>
> Hendrik
>
>
> Richard Carter wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I'm using kde 4.4.5 on a PC running Debian 6.0.1. Until a few days
>> ago my desktop showed a task bar or panel containing icons upon which
>> I could click to start the associated applications.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I clicked on something I shouldn't have and my desk top
>> now looks quiet different. Initially the desk top showed several
>> Icons labelled "Internet" etc. After lots of effort I managed to get
>> rid of all that so that the only icon on the desks top is
>> "Applications Launcher", But the panel is gone and attempts to
>> recover it by right clicking on the desk top and then clicking on "
>> +Add panel" in the resulting window produce no response.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest how I could get back to my old desk top?
>
>
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