Hi,

I had an external monitor on my laptop, created a new standard panel on it and forgot to remove it before unplugging the monitor again.

Now my systray doesn't show a number of entries. I tried deleting it and lo an behold, there still is an active systray - KDE presumably has the main systray still running on the non-existing external monitor.

Anybody have an idea how I can kill it?

Also, is this bug-worthy?

Thanks in advance.

did you try restarting plasma-desktop? KDE?

guessing you will need to find and remove the tray(s) and its sub components (plugins) from your ~/.kde[4]/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

- iirc you need to stop plasma (kquitapp plasma-desktop) and should backup the file and other plasma* files before editing it
- find and remove the plugin-system tray section(s) and it's plugins
- save and then restart plasma-desktop

as the tray is a container itself it will have it's own contained applets, for example see the first part of my systemtray:

[Containments][1][Applets][6]
geometry=947,2,106,57
immutability=1
plugin=systemtray
zvalue=91

[Containments][1][Applets][6][Configuration]
DefaultAppletsAdded=true
ShowApplicationStatus=true
ShowCommunications=true
ShowHardware=true
ShowSystemServices=true
ShowUnknown=true
alwaysShown=notifier,KAlarm,Klipper,Konversation,org.kde.notifications
hidden=goldendict,hotshots,KNotes,Kaption,org.kde.networkmanagement,opera,KMix,caffeine

[Containments][1][Applets][6][Configuration][Applets][10]
geometry=0,0,24,24
immutability=1
plugin=notifier
zvalue=0

[Containments][1][Applets][6][Configuration][Applets][10][PopupApplet]
DialogHeight=351
DialogWidth=312

[Containments][1][Applets][6][Configuration][Applets][10][Shortcuts]
global=

[Containments][1][Applets][6][Configuration][Applets][11]
geometry=0,0,24,24
immutability=1
plugin=org.kde.notifications
zvalue=0

Thanks very much for the quick reply!

While KDE is wonderful at clicky-pointy things it is a pita on the cml... What a monster of a file... I went round to a mate's who has an external monitor and got rid of it that way - the cheap way out, I know