UNSOLVED - Can't move icons on panel

[Maurice]

When I go to Panel Options/Panel Seettings the bar with the options - Screen Edge, Height etc is displayed but there is no double arrow which allows one to move the panel icons.

Also, when I drop the cursor down to the panel the bar with the options disappears. I have widgets unlocked when I do this.

Thanks for any ideas.

[Archie]

With the same procedure you just did, you can move the icons by placing your cursor over them and click. The cursor will change to the move cursor and you can move the icons to any are in the panel that is not occupied or can be adjusted.

[Maurice]

With the same procedure you just did, you can move the icons by placing your cursor over them and click. The cursor will change to the move cursor and you can move the icons to any are in the panel that is not occupied or can be adjusted.

Thanks Archie. But to place my cursor over the icons I have to drop into the panel and as soon as I do this the options disappear and I am back where I started. Previously the move cursor (a double arrow) appeared before I dropped into the panel but now it doesn't appear at all.

[coffeetime]

Moving icons on panel

[Bald Brick]

I take it you are running MiniMe -- that is to say KDE. If so, try renaming the directory ~/.kde4. If not, tell us which desktop environment you are actually using.

[Maurice]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNj6UpajCgo#ws]Moving icons on panel

I know how to move the panel coffeetime. What I want to do is move the individual icons and to do that I have to place my cursor in the panel and when I do that the panel options just disappear.

[Maurice]

I take it you are running MiniMe -- that is to say KDE. If so, try renaming the directory ~/.kde4. If not, tell us which desktop environment you are actually using.

Yes - Minime with kde4. What do I rename .kde4 to?

[coffeetime]

In the video I do not move the panel, but the icons Did you watch the video?

[Maurice]

In the video I do not move the panel, but the icons Did you watch the video?

Sorry coffeetime, my eyesight is not the best. Yes I saw the double cross over the icons which enabled you to move them but it's this double cross that I can't get. When I move into the panel the options bar just disappears.

[Archie]

I think Bald Brick wants you to do this option. On the Konsole, simply type:

Code:

[user@localhost ~] $ mv .kde4/ .kde4_old/

[Maurice]

I think Bald Brick wants you to do this option. On the Konsole, simply type:

Code:

[user@localhost ~] $ mv .kde4/ .kde4_old/

I did this, rebooted, and ended up in a very basic Minime with only the menu icon. I opened Dolphin and sent the .kde4.old/ to trash. rebooted but still got the same Minime.

I am now using the livecd and don't know what to do next to get back to my original Minime.

[Bald Brick]

Your .kde4.old is your old .kde4 folder with all your old settings.

The cure-all for KDE problems has for ages been removing .kde or in this case .kde4 in a user's home directory.

More than half of the time the reason for the problem is a corrupt file in this hidden folder or in one of its subfolders. When you remove ~/.kde4 a new default version is immediatelly created, but naturally without your own old settings.

If you rename your old version instead of just deleting it you can restore it if the new version doesn't fix your problem -- and you can restore parts of it anyway if you want some of your old settings back. So it doesn't matter what you rename it to; the renamed directory is just a backup.

If renaming .kde4 didn't solve your original problem, I'd get the old version out of trash and copy most of it into your new .kde4.

(I'd actually rename .kde4.old back to .kde4, but for that to work you have to remove your new .kde4 first and do the renaming before the system has had time to create still another .kde4 -- or in other words, you have do the removing and renaming in very rapid succession with a command like "rm ~/.kde4 && mv ~/kde4.old kde4".)

Edited.

[Archie]

Why did you trash .kde4_old?

If your .kde_old is still in the trash:/ restore it. Then mv .kde4_old/ .kde4/ and replace all the files and you should have your old setup back with still no solution to the problem.

I suspect it might be one of the files from the config folder. But which one.

[Maurice]

Why did you trash .kde4_old?

If your .kde_old is still in the trash:/ restore it. Then mv .kde4_old/ .kde4/ and replace all the files and you should have your old setup back with still no solution to the problem.

I suspect it might be one of the files from the config folder. But which one.

I'm totally confused now. I did bring back the kde.old from trash and tried to rename it to kde4 but was unable to do so as there was already a kde4 there. I tried overwriting the files but must have stuffed things up. Now I don't know where my original files are nor how to identify them anyway.

Have I lost my Minime now or can I retrieve it somehow?

[Bald Brick]

Why did you trash .kde4_old?

If your .kde_old is still in the trash:/ restore it. Then mv .kde4_old/ .kde4/ and replace all the files and you should have your old setup back with still no solution to the problem.

I suspect it might be one of the files from the config folder. But which one.

I'm totally confused now. I did bring back the kde.old from trash and tried to rename it to kde4 but was unable to do so as there was already a kde4 there. I tried overwriting the files but must have stuffed things up. Now I don't know where my original files are nor how to identify them anyway.

Have I lost my Minime now or can I retrieve it somehow?

See the edit to my last post. (The last three lines.)

You can't rename .kde4.old (or .kde4_old) to .kde4 if .kde4 already exists, and if you remove .kde4 it will immediately be recreated. Nevertheless, in most cases a command like

Code:

rm ~/.kde4 && mv ~/kde4.old kde4

will work, because the system won't have time to create a new .kde4 between the two parts of the command. If it still doesn't work when you run it from within KDE, it will if you run it in a tty. (Just hit Ctrl+Alt+F1, log in as your normal user, run the command, and hit Ctrl+Alt+F8.)