KDE4 - Multiple desktops(zoom able) - Unable to move taskbar
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KDE4 - Multiple desktops(zoom able) - Unable to move taskbar
Currently I have a very strange KDE4 desktop. The Taskbar is nearly a 3rd of the way up the screen I cannot lower it, it appears to be firmly fixed where it is.
The widgets are very large and I cannot get them to be smaller plus it appears (now this may be a feature ?) that I have multiple mini desktop screens running all with zoom out in the top right corner.
How can you start with just one normal desktop and not have multiple smaller ones?
Ok to solve most problems like this, you can do this:
(This will probably remove your desktop settings, but it looks like its not too customized from the screenshot).
Press Ctrl-Esc and kill plasma.
Press alt-f2 to open runner.
Open Konsole or some terminal emulator.
Delete the directories ./kde and ./kde4 in your home directory.
Start plasma. (in the term, type "plasma", then press enter.)
Well before you start playing around with your xorg.conf, you can try my steps above but we will replace the alt f2 part. What that was supposed to do was bring up the kde4 run dialog box which you can start a program from.
So here are the new steps.
Open your kmenu and start konsole.
Ctrl-esc to open up the process manager -> kill plasma
(if that didnt open up the process manager, open your menu and find ksysguard)
Next in that konsole you had open:
make sure you are in your home directory then do this:
delete the folders .kde and .kde4
Well thats the same as what I did just didn't start konsole via the alt-f2 keystroke. As you can see in the screenshot it did make a minor improvement but its still displaying it as screen in a screen with the taskbar misplaced.
In your xorg.conf. I don't believe kde4 does well with multiple screens yet... so what you may want to do is use just one screen. So save a backup of your xorg.conf. Then comment out all the instances of that other screen (screen1).
Restart x. If you don't get any gui, use the cli to navigate to /etc/X11 and copy your backup xorg.conf to the actual.
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