I accidently deleted the tool bar in KDE and can't seem to get it back. Wound up using plasma but I definetly don't like it. I tried rebooting to a recovery kernal, but that just brought up the same desktop.

So 2 questions, how do I get my toolbar back, and how to turn off plasma once I do. All help is much apprecitated.

PS: I tried the alt/F2 type kicker fix and all that does is bring up the fonts menu.

'Toolbar' - meaning the File | Edit | View | ... at the top of each Window? If 'yes,' then you have lost your Windows 'borders' IIUC, and you likely need to check that you (still)have kde-window-manager installed.

No, I mean the toolbar at the bottom of the page where everything docs, like the clock etc.

Okay - the 'Panel'

Just right-click any where on the desktop and click on Add Panel.

All that does is add a panel on the left of my desktop. Maybe I need to turn plasma off first? Not sure how to do this. I just want the standard interface back. Maybe I just need to delete KDE and reinstall, although that seems drastic.

It doesn't matter that the panel is added on the left. Simply drag it to the bottom

Oh gosh! I guess I am not being very clear. I have a plasma toolbar which i built after I accidently deleted my "normal" default toolbar. I want the "normal" toolbar back. With this plasma set up I have to minimize my browser to get to a toolbar to do anything. I want the normal toolbar that automatically appears at the bottom of any session I am in. Thank you for trying to help though, much appreciated.

kafkapenguin wrote:Oh gosh! I guess I am not being very clear. I have a plasma toolbar which i built after I accidently deleted my "normal" default toolbar. I want the "normal" toolbar back.

Okay, do this (note: this will remove any customizations you've made to your desktop such as wallpapers, sticky notes and what not).

Open a konsole.
kquitapp plasma-desktop (everything but the console will disappear, this is normal).
cd /home/user/.kde/share/config
mv plasma* /home/user (this moves the plasma-config files out of the way)
plasma-desktop &

Does this help (user above should of course be replaced with your username)? If it does, just close konsole and keep on working