Since the latest KDE upgrade (4.6.2) on my kubuntu laptop, my top panel is not in the right place after I log in.

It shows up at the top, but so that the top edge of the panel is moved down to where the bottom edge ought to be. I unlock widgets, grab the "screen edge" control and push it back up to the top and then it's fine, but as soon as I log out and in again, it's bumped down again.

I've tried removing the panel and recreating it, but it does it again. Is anyone else seeing this sort of problem?

I can't really picture it... Any chance of a screenshot (you could use www.omploader.org)?

That sounds very strange, do you have a "special" setup of some sort? (E.g. dual monitors.)

Here's a screenshot. This is on my laptop, Dell latitude e5500 with Intel mobile 4 graphics. No dual monitors or anything odd.
http://www.alandmoore.com/stuff/messed_up_panel.png

Extremely odd. Does your screen resolution change during the login process?

Another idea which did odd things to my setup: do you have/have you ever had a fancy panel setup (as from fancy-tasks)?

i have this issue too , i think renaming /.kde/share/config/plasmaCONFIGFILES

could be a step to understand if it is related with a bad config files

i have seen that behavior when plasma has crashed , after a *lots* removing panell , run javascript , remove panel , run javascript , remove panel change stuff panel , run javascript for gnome panels ,

Thanks for the responses

@bcooksley: not that I'm aware of.

@toad: yes, that panel you see down the left side is a fancy-tasks inside a panel. I suppose I could just ditch that and make a panel full of normal launchers and see if that changes anything.


@nowardev: Oh, let's hope it doesn't come to that again. I think I've had to rebuild my desktops just about every time I upgrade KDE. It's getting kind of tiring. I have four desktops with different plasma widgets on each one.

I have had many problems with fancy panels - they completely bork my normal panel set-up. So yes, try and get rid of it and see whether that changes anything.

Unfortunately it didn't change anything. I removed the fancy-tasks, did kquitapp plasma-desktop, then hand-edited my plasma config files to remove all reference to fancy-tasks.

But it still does it every time. I can't figure it out...

Noticed two things the other day:

- When the panel is out of place, the "minimize windows" effects animate as if the taskbar were at the bottom (e.g. magic lamp effect).

- I killed plasma and restarted it from a konsole window, and the panel actually appeared just below the konsole window. This made me think yakuake might be causing it, but that didn't turn out to be the case.

I'm stumped. I upgraded to 4.6.3 today and haven't been back in KDE to see if it's fixed (tinkering with LXDE for a bit).

admoore wrote:Noticed two things the other day:

- When the panel is out of place, the "minimize windows" effects animate as if the taskbar were at the bottom (e.g. magic lamp effect).

- I killed plasma and restarted it from a konsole window, and the panel actually appeared just below the konsole window. This made me think yakuake might be causing it, but that didn't turn out to be the case.

I'm stumped. I upgraded to 4.6.3 today and haven't been back in KDE to see if it's fixed (tinkering with LXDE for a bit).

nope it's not yakuake because i had that problem too.. but i have not that konsole ...

do this :

remove every panel ,


ALT F2 : desktop console

then copy and paste for example what you find here , (there is code)

viewtopic.php?f=67&t=94989

then press execute ,

reboot and try to see if anything is changed

basically you have run a javascript that create a panel with some widget into ...

so you can create your own panel for the future.

i have created a new user and now i am using that layoout for my panel

nowardev wrote:

admoore wrote:Noticed two things the other day:

- When the panel is out of place, the "minimize windows" effects animate as if the taskbar were at the bottom (e.g. magic lamp effect).

- I killed plasma and restarted it from a konsole window, and the panel actually appeared just below the konsole window. This made me think yakuake might be causing it, but that didn't turn out to be the case.

I'm stumped. I upgraded to 4.6.3 today and haven't been back in KDE to see if it's fixed (tinkering with LXDE for a bit).

nope it's not yakuake because i had that problem too.. but i have not that konsole ...

do this :

remove every panel ,


ALT F2 : desktop console

then copy and paste for example what you find here , (there is code)

viewtopic.php?f=67&t=94989

then press execute ,

reboot and try to see if anything is changed

basically you have run a javascript that create a panel with some widget into ...

so you can create your own panel for the future.

i have created a new user and now i am using that layoout for my panel

No offense, but I don't really want that panel setup. I just want a standard panel at the top of the screen and launcher down the side. I've already destroyed and recreated my panels once, and that didn't solve the issue.

Thanks for the response, though.

You say you had this problem too, what was your panel setup like when you had the problem?

does this happen if you create and login as a new user?

what if you disable composting?

what is result of command "xrandr 0", just the first few lines that look like

Code: Select all

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 1920 x 1200
default connected 1920x1200+0+0 0mm x 0mm

?

No offense, but I don't really want that panel setup. I just want a standard panel at the top of the screen and launcher down the side. I've already destroyed and recreated my panels once, and that didn't solve the issue.

Thanks for the response, though.

You say you had this problem too, what was your panel setup like when you had the problem

no problem that was only to give you a trick , i really dislike do the same things , add panel remove this put the other widget so...

you can use your default layout as you wish ... but it is script-able so you don't need to do that boring stuff everytime you need to add a panel.

i had that problem with the top panel. i have never seen this issue on the bottom panel .

you could check this:

~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

that is the configuration file

the configuration of the panel : press CTRL F and search for panel

for example i have this

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activity=
activityId=
desktop=-1
formfactor=2
geometry=0,-31,1280,25
immutability=1
lastDesktop=-1
lastScreen=0
location=3
plugin=panel
screen=0
zvalue=0