On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 03:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Alex Schuster posted on Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:38:57 +0200 as excerpted: > > > Thomas Taylor writes: > > > >> Hi KDE users, > >> I am using KDE 4.8.4 under openSuSE 12.x and would like to remove the > >> Dolphin and Firefox launchers from the taskbar. I can remove them on > >> each startup but after a while they return. > >> > >> My default file manager is Krusader which I added to the startup list > >> in Desktop Configuration. I don't use Dolphin and those launchers take > >> up space that has better uses (6 active desktops). Is there a way to > >> PERMANENTLY remove those launchers? > > > > For me (4.8.4 on Gentoo Linux) it's just a matter of unlocking widgets, > > right-click on the launcher and removing it. I have no idea what would > > bring them back on openSUSE, this is not normal. > > Gentoo here as well (but I've been running the 4.9 pre-releases... 4.9- > rc2 aka 4.8.97 currently, IIRC 4.9.0 is due approximately... tommorrow!). > > But I actually don't run a taskmanager plasmoid at all; I put other > things on my panels and use alt-tab or grid-desktop or the window-list > (which I have the desktop configured to popup with a middle-click), or > since I have a full-size dual-1080p-monitors-in-stacked-config desktop, > simply arrange windows so none are fully hidden, and use scroll-on- > desktop to switch desktops... > > That's why I hadn't responded before. > > But wonko's correct. If you set the configuration up the way you want, > then reboot or restart kde and have it stay thru that first initial > reboot (some settings only only get saved on desktop shutdown, so doing > that immediately after finishing the config should lock it in, as well as > test that it really took), then LATER have it revert on you... > > Something's wrong! > > The first thing I'd guess is a corrupted filesystem and or unstable > system, that's eating configuration files. I'd do a thorough fsck and > see. If it fixes some stuff and you do another fsck within a couple days > and there's a lot more for it to fix, BACKUP ANY DATA YOU WANT TO SAVE > BECAUSE YOUR DISK IS VERY LIKELY DYING! > > Actually, anybody not having tested backups by definition doesn't really > care about their data in the first place, so you should already have > them, but double-checking that they're current and that it's actually > possible to recover from them's a very good idea. > > Thanks, Duncan. I'll give that a try tomorrow when my eyes aren't crossed! Tom 8<)) -- “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pine -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 12.1x86_64 openSUSE 12.2x86_64 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 KDE 4.8.4, FF 13.0 claws-mail 3.8.1 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
