Plasma screen

[david1958]

just got a question on the plasma shell. I was checking out some of the background pics for the desktop and someway I switched over to the plasma screen and I want to revert back. I lost all my Icons on the screen for all 6 desktop enviorments that is why I don't want the plasma theme. I went back in and tried to put in the oxygen theme but it will not go.
regards
david

[Bald Brick]

just got a question on the plasma shell. I was checking out some of the background pics for the desktop and someway I switched over to the plasma screen and I want to revert back. I lost all my Icons on the screen for all 6 desktop enviorments that is why I don't want the plasma theme. I went back in and tried to put in the oxygen theme but it will not go.
regards
david

This is a bit hard to decipher. If you are running KDE you probably have a plasma desktop. Unfortunately the word "plasma" means something entirely different in that context than when we talk about plasma monitors.

I think - but this is a guess - that you have simply changed the layout of your desktop from "Folder View" to "Default Desktop", or vice versa. In that case, just right-click your desktop, click "Folder View Settings" or "Default Desktop Settings" and change the layout to the other one.

By default you actually have six layouts to chose between, but "Folder View" is the most popular one, followed by the "Default Desktop". If your icons disappeared you probably switched from folder view to something else - or you may have changed the "Location" of the folder pointed to by your folder view.

[david1958]

This is a bit hard to decipher. If you are running KDE you probably have a plasma desktop. Unfortunately the word "plasma" means something entirely different in that context than when we talk about plasma monitors.

BB, I guess I should have rephrased this

I did mean the Plasma desktop. I do not run a plasma monitor for after I read your response I see what you mean. I run a LCD screen

version

FullMonty Release:            2013.04
Kernel-version:    3.2.18-pclos2.pae.bfs
KDE4-version:                        4.10.1

After I get done throwing hay to the cows I will check out your remady. I'll get back with u tonite and let you know how it goes

david

[david1958]

I dont think that was it BB. When  I click on folder view as you said  yes i did click on folder as you stated and it did being back some icons but not like the widgets in the original monty iso. It is telling me that

desktop settings-plasma desktop shell

and should not i be in kde? I tried to run the fm widget settings again but I had no luck that way either. I just dont understand what happened. I've set alot of it back to "default values" by the way

[david1958]

Bald Brick, most of it had to do with the resolution. I had just reset the resolution for it told me on the last install it should be set at 1280x600, I did and it changed everything. I changed it back to where I had it and all did come back, I can unlock my widgets on the desktop, but 1 question is how do I unlock the widgets in the Desktop Settings settings under view. It is Locked and will not let me unlock it.

[Bald Brick]

Bald Brick, most of it had to do with the resolution. I had just reset the resolution for it told me on the last install it should be set at 1280x600, I did and it changed everything. I changed it back to where I had it and all did come back, I can unlock my widgets on the desktop, but 1 question is how do I unlock the widgets in the Desktop Settings settings under view. It is Locked and will not let me unlock it.

But "under view" where? Again, I don't really understand the question. Normally it doesn't matter where you unlock the widgets: all the widgets are either locked or unlocked, and to unlock them you could start by right-clicking the desktop, clicking the desktop cashew, right-clicking an empty space on the panel, or clicking an "Unlock Widgets" button in certain programs.

Do you possibly mean that clicking the "Unlock Widgets" button doesn't work here:



?

[david1958]

Do you possibly mean that clicking the "Unlock Widgets" button doesn't work here:

yes this is where it is locked at. As for "right click with the mouse on the desktop it is unlocked that way and I can lock it. Other than that my widgets on the screen are back but I can not move them to center them LIke I could before with the "right click" unlock or lock widgets.

[Bald Brick]

That's clearly not how it should be. I'm doing some experimenting to see if I can replicate your problem. Is your layout at the moment "Default Desktop" or "Folder View"?

[david1958]

BB,

Is your layout at the moment "Default Desktop" or "Folder View"?

it is set to folder view and I can not change the dropdown.
david

I also have loaded into the live disk to do a fsck command on sda6 and here are the results but I have not booted out of the live desk to see if it helped just to let you know

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Password:
[root@localhost ~]# fsck -f /dev/sda6
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.18
e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
Superblock last mount time is in the future.
        (by less than a day, probably due to the hardware clock being incorrectly set)  Fix<y>? yes

Superblock last write time is in the future.
        (by less than a day, probably due to the hardware clock being incorrectly set).  Fix<y>? yes

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 3A: Optimizing directories
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

/: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/: 443702/1302528 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 3540535/5201035 blocks
[root@localhost ~]#













[david1958]

BB, got it. Had to in full monty tools/full monty widgets setup/ reran it on resolution check unlock widgets and bingo, I got full access again.
david