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zeratul
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System tray doesn't show some icons.

Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:32 am
Hi all,

during last power outage my system tray became corrupted. It shows some KDE icons alright (Devices, Klipper, Updates, Volume) but it doesn't accept/show icons from programs liek Opera, Thunderbird, JDownloader.

Is there a file which could get corrupted or where should I start looking to investigate this, maybe reset that file altogether. I tried to clean kde cache in /var/tmp and it didn't help.

KDE 4.5.5, Kubuntu 10.10

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Marek
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Are you sure they haven't been hidden in the Hidden Icons section? (which is the right most icon of the system tray)


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Plus you may want to check your systray settings (right click in an empty systray area and check Display and Entries settings for the progs you mentioned.


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Hi,

no they are not hidden they don't seem to register there. In display and entries menu I can't see them and some things like messaging are there multiple times. What I am looking for is some sort of rc file. It happened to me before with favorites in KMenu (they weren§t saved on system reboot - corrupted file), I just deleted it and let KDE make new default file and everything went back to normal.

As I said, it happened during power outage. I'm gonna try to upgrade to natty to see if it helps.

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The correct rc files in this case are "plasmarc", "plasma-desktoprc" and "plasma-desktop-appletsrc"


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Hi,

thanks for pointers, those first two hold very few information in my case but deleting the last one and rebooting solved my problem. Now every icon I expect to be there is there.

Thanks guys,

Regards,

Marek


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