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I upgraded last night, including the latest kernel but there may also have been a couple of kde-specific updates. I can check if anybody is interested.
Booting today, plasma-desktop was only partially usable. Reboot did not help. Removing old plasma config files and recreating them did not help. Eventually, I tracked it down to the Dictionary widget. The moment that was added back to the panel, plasma-desktop behaved brokenly. Omitting it allowed me to recreate my panel although the wicd systray icon still appears to be missing.
Symptoms of brokenness:
- most desktops: black background
- single desktop: displays greeter splash as background (i.e. wallpaper with splash box in middle)
- no widgets in panel to right of Dictionary, no cashew
- launchers and widgets to left of Dictionary do not respond
- many applications unresponsive and quick to freeze forcing a force quit (is this the right term? I'm borrowing from os x...)
- accessing certain parts of system settings is very slow and eventually freezes system settings
- no secondary-click menu on desktop
On attempting to reconfigure panel from default settings:
- after adding Dictionary, panel settings are unresponsive and the panel settings dropdown is stuck on screen (i.e. won't disappear but also won't respond); widgets etc. already added are non-responsive; many applications slow/freeze
I'd like a script to reconfigure plasma-desktop, preferably one which would automatically test each readdition - I seem to be reconfiguring an awful lot!
More seriously, if anybody knows how to get the wicd status indicator back, please let me know. wicd must be active else I wouldn't be able to access this web page...
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Maybe there are other issues, too... I just got forcibly logged out while using LibreOffice and when I logged back in some, but not all, of the positions of panel widgets had been changed... Very odd.
On the bright side, the wicd systray icon has reappeared - apparently as a result.
Last edited by cfr (2012-01-06 19:12:54)
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