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Hi everyone..
I just reinstalled Arch after a few months with Mint, and (almost) everything is going well. One problem I have is that everytime I reboot, and log back into KDE, a couple of the icons/widgets on the panel have moved around (regardless of whether or not I "lock" them in place). Has anyone else experienced this, or have any solutions to this?
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Hmm.. I used to have this problem with kdemod 4.2.4, and a side panel, haven't had a problem since 4.3 though. Perhaps you could try moving your ~/.kde4 and seeing if anything happens?
Edit: it seems I spoke too soon; I set up my panels like I had them last time and the same thing happens.... It looks like if you have a side panel, your plasmoids on that panel get messed up...
Last edited by 1LordAnubis (2009-08-10 02:02:23)
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Hi everyone..
I just reinstalled Arch after a few months with Mint, and (almost) everything is going well. One problem I have is that everytime I reboot, and log back into KDE, a couple of the icons/widgets on the panel have moved around (regardless of whether or not I "lock" them in place). Has anyone else experienced this, or have any solutions to this?
Are you on KDEMod or Extra-KDE.
Amongst the few unofficial "features" I've found--this isn't one of them on ma' Extra-KDE4.3 Arch64.
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I had that problem in the early days of KDE 4.0/1, but never after..?
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Hey thanks for the responses..
I'm not use kdemod, just the regular KDE. I'll try moving my ~/.kde folder and see if it fixes it....Will this totally reset all my settings like my desktop theme, wallpaper, icons etc?
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Why, where else should your settings be saved? But I think it's ~/.kde4
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Yes, it is ~/.kde4. But be careful since e.g. KMail by default saves its mails in there. Also, I doubt you have to get rid of it all. Only the plasma config files should be enough.
Try this before starting KDE:
rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktoprc ~/.kde4/share/config/plasmarc
Last edited by mutlu_inek (2009-08-10 20:25:51)
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I have the same problem after upgrading to Kdemod 4.3, when I start session the panel opens up with the icons that where on the roght side centered and with a blocked empty space to the right. it only fixes when i add another graphical element.
I was considering removing Kdemod and going to extra/KDE but it seems the issue is also present in KDE...
Please tell me, Was the problem solved?
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Well, that solution has never worked for me...
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
-Benjamin Franklin
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Hello
I suffered very simular problems. I had a bottom panel (centered 75% with a task bar and system manager) and a top panel (50% several widgets, centered and autohiden). After every reboot my panels would be left aligned and the widgets could be anywhere within thier parent panel.
After much playing about tonight I have nailed it down (I think) to the default Plasma theme, Air. By changing the Plasma theme to another I seem to have fixed the problem. I will try and speak to someone on #plasma to find out if this is know or not and if not file a bug.
Hope this helps.
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changed the theme from 'air' to 'oxygen' but no difference
EDIT: following the above suggestion by "mutlu_inek" seems to have solved my problem, Thanks! (maybe the thread should be labeled as [SOLVED]?)
for extra/kde
rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*
or for kdemod
rm ~/.kdemod4/share/config/plasma*
EDIT2: after setting my graphic elements the problem reappeared, maybe it's a bug of one of them? I'm using these elements: Lancelot launcher, show desktop, quick launch, stasks, systemtray, digital clock, device notifier, battery monitor and block/logout. (some of the names maybe different because my language is spanish and freely translated the names).
Last edited by andreamer (2009-08-12 17:45:23)
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Well... I finally figured out a way to keep my plasmoids from jumping around at next login...
It seems that if I put any plasmoid in the bottom space of my side panel, then at next login it moves...
As long as I leave that space blank, no plasmoids jump around...
My Panels/Plasmoids(kdemod):
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
-Benjamin Franklin
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Tried with Air and Krandios plasma themes and got shifting of one plasmoid. Tried:
mv plasma-appletsrc{,.old} plasma-desktop-appletsrc{,.old} plasma-desktoprc{,.old} plasmarc{,.old} plasmoidviewer-appletsrc{,.bck}
But no luck. Looks like this is related to certain plasmoids. For me it was panel spacer. If I set it below default size it would loose it's position.
Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-08-13 06:41:06)
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I removed every plasmoid and restarted session with the same problem... so maybe it¡s a bug of the panel itself.
is really not everybody experiencing this trouble?
EDIT: I moved from Kdemod to extra/KDE and no difference
Last edited by andreamer (2009-08-15 05:13:41)
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is really not everybody experiencing this trouble?
No.
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after update of kdelibs it seems to have been fixed.
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