All -

I am running KDE 4.4.4 compiled from source, and I am trying to add the battery monitor and the network manager plasmoids to the sytem tray. When I click on System Tray Settings -> Plasma Widgets everything is grayed out and I can't add the widgets to the system tray. They are greyed out even when I unlock the widgets using the cachew in the top right corner or on panel. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
James

Try unlocking the widgets before opening the dialog.

Yes, this is confusing. In 4.5 there's an unlock button in the dialog I think.

Hans wrote:Try unlocking the widgets before opening the dialog.

Yes, this is confusing. In 4.5 there's an unlock button in the dialog I think.

fyi - I've got the unlock button but it was not functional for me and it causes a 100% spike in cpu, forcing me to kill plasm-desktop (running beta2)

Hans wrote:Try unlocking the widgets before opening the dialog.

I did try that, and it didn't have an affect. All of the options were still grayed out.

One more thing...I just created and signed in as a test user and I was able to add the widgets to the system tray. So it must be something with the config for my current user. What is the best/safest way to delete my plasma settings?

Thanks,
James

in ~/.kde4/share/config/ there's 3 plasma files, all start with plasma*
of course you should back them up just in case

then stop and restart plasma:
kquitapp plasma-desktop
plasma-desktop

you will have to rebuild your panel(s) and desktop

Deleting the plasma config files and restarting plasma resolved the issue. Although it was not ideal as I did have to reconfigure my desktop.

Thank for the help everyone!