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Registered: 2007-03-26

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Second panel in KDE is uneditable

I want a two-panel configuration in KDE, but for some reason, the panel editor only allows me to edit the width (panel properties), etc. for the one main panel. This makes it so that I can't choose on which side to place this new panel, nor can I adjust its size. I've run into this with other distros in the past, but does anyone know how to fix it?

madeye

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Re: Second panel in KDE is uneditable

What kind of panel do you have as the extra one?
I tried making a second panel on my kde desktop, and I could edit the configuration on it through the "Configure Panel" (right click on panel). I just had to choose the second panel in the drop down menu at the top.

Perhaps the type of panel you created behaves differently than the one I tried?

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Re: Second panel in KDE is uneditable

Well, that worked, but now I've triggered a legitimate bug in the main KDE panel, and I can't delete & recreate it because KDE doesn't allow you to remove the Main Panel...

The bug is that everything in the Panel is shifted about 100px to the right, so that the leftmost button has over 100px of padding to the left, and the right-most ones can't be seen.

ArchPad

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Re: Second panel in KDE is uneditable

False alarm, logging in and out fixed the second problem.

madeye

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Re: Second panel in KDE is uneditable

Does the panel fill the entire width of the desktop or is the panel moved 100px to the right too.
Perhaps you could drag the main panel to e.g. the top and see if that could restore it. Also try right clicking on one of the icons and choose "move", then move it to the side and see what happens.

unfortunately I can't re-create the error on my desktop here.

EDIT: I was a little later than you there. Glad you solved it. I must have been typing while you fixed it...

Last edited by madeye (2007-07-06 19:01:07)

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funkyou

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Re: Second panel in KDE is uneditable

This is an old issue with kicker...

Instead of a KDE restart you can also do

dcop kicker Panel restart

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