Hi,

after upgrading to kde sc 4.11 my top control panel moved somewhere further to the north and is now effectively unreachable. What'd be the best way to get rid of this additional -- though useless -- panel? I wouldn't have noticed it at all, if there wouldn't be the Notification Widget sitting in this Panel, and showing me the notifications from above -- so i get them twice.

Cheers

Can you give screenshot?

A screenshot of what? The control panel that i want to remove is off-screen, hence unreachable.

you could try editing your $KDEHOME/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc, obviously at your own risk
- save a copy
- open in Kedit
- kquitapp plasma-desktop (panels will disappear)
- in Kedit find the containments sections containing "plugin=panel", there should be 1 section for each panel
- id the appropriate [Containments] [nn] and then delete that and all section that start with it, there will be a bunch containing all the applets in the panel. 1st section appears to start with [Containments [nn] last with [Containments] [nn] [Configuration]
- save
- restart plasma with: plasma-desktop &

this is what by side panel appears like in my rc file

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[Containments][48]
activity=
activityId=
desktop=-1
formfactor=3
geometry=10045,-227,39,221
immutability=1
lastDesktop=-1
lastScreen=0
location=5
plugin=panel
screen=0
zvalue=0

[Containments][48][ActionPlugins]
RightButton;NoModifier=contextmenu

[Containments][48][Applets][166]
geometry=0,84,37,37
immutability=1
plugin=plasma_applet_cwp
zvalue=464

[Containments][48][Applets][166][Configuration]
ProviderURL=http://www.weather.com/weather/right-now/Springfield+MA+01103
Share=false
background=1
backgroundColor=0,0,0
backgroundFile=0
backgroundTransparency=224
customImageCurrent=-1
customImageList=
customImageNameList=
cwpIdentifier=260162386
dayNamesSystem=1
dewPoint=Dew Point
feelsLike=feels like
font=Sans Serif,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
fontColor=255,255,255
fontShadow=true
forecastSeparator=2
graphics_widget_size=347,198
humidity=Humidity
icons=0
iconsCustom=
invertWindRose=false
layoutNumber=2
omitIconDescription=false
preferredLocationIndexList=
preferredLocationNameList=
preferredLocationWeatherProviderList=
preferredLocationZipList=
pressure=Pressure
provider_update_time_shown=false
rain=Rain
scaleFont=1
scaleIcons=1.3
showTemperatureUnit=true
updateFrequency=5
updateTime=true
uvIndex=UV Index
visibility=Visibility
wind=Wind
windLayoutRose=true
windRose=N;S;E;W;
windRoseScale=0.9
xmlDataFile=19
zip=Springfield+MA+01103

[Containments][48][Applets][166][LayoutInformation]
Order=2

[Containments][48][Applets][166][PopupApplet]
DialogHeight=221
DialogWidth=358

[Containments][48][Applets][167]
geometry=0,125,37,37
immutability=1
plugin=paste
zvalue=499

[Containments][48][Applets][167][Configuration]
Share=false

[Containments][48][Applets][167][LayoutInformation]
Order=3

[Containments][48][Applets][167][PopupApplet]
DialogHeight=1056
DialogWidth=394

[Containments][48][Applets][190]
geometry=0,166,37,32
immutability=1
plugin=trash
zvalue=0

[Containments][48][Applets][190][Configuration]
Share=false

[Containments][48][Applets][190][LayoutInformation]
Order=4

[Containments][48][Applets][196]
geometry=0,43,37,37
immutability=1
plugin=veromix-plasmoid
zvalue=0

[Containments][48][Applets][196][Configuration]
size=459,178

[Containments][48][Applets][196][LayoutInformation]
Order=1

[Containments][48][Applets][196][PopupApplet]
DialogHeight=160
DialogWidth=470

[Containments][48][Applets][60]
geometry=0,2,37,37
immutability=1
plugin=socketsentry
zvalue=500

[Containments][48][Applets][60][Configuration]
Share=false
aggregationMode=1
flowTableColumnSizes=60,101,0,89,0,0,0,0,0,69,79,0,0
flowTableHiddenColumns=false,false,true,false,true,true,true,true,true,false,false,true,true
flowTableSortColumn=1
flowTableSortOrder=true
flowTableVisualIndices=0,1,2,10,4,5,6,7,8,3,9,11,12
selectedDevice=any
showFilterSortControls=true
showSubdomainLevels=2

[Containments][48][Applets][60][LayoutInformation]
Order=0

[Containments][48][Applets][60][PopupApplet]
DialogHeight=523
DialogWidth=422

[Containments][48][Configuration]
maximumSize=39,221
minimumSize=39,221

you could also reset your destop to it's default

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kquitapp plasma-desktop
 sleep 20s
 mkdir -p $HOME/plasma-config/
 mv $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/plasma-desktop* $HOME/plasma-config/
plasma-desktop &

thanks google01103 a bunch. deleting the appropriate sections helped -- though i commented out the wrong one the first time