How do I fix this? I really don't want to reboot I have too much stuff open.

http://gal.redsquirrel.me/thumbs/lrg-3219-2__5_.png

Is there a way to set the size permanently and make it wider? My hunch is that as soon as it turned to Dec 1 it takes less place than Nov 30 so it made it smaller and screwed up.

Distro is Mint 17.1 KDE.

I noticed if I change the font it sometimes changes size, but then it's ridiculously huge with lot of empty space, it seems to be all or nothing. How do I make it back to normal?

Hate how Linux GUIs can be so flaky at times. You'd never see this kind of thing in Windows.

On similar note, is there a way to change the super feint grey colour when a task bar item is not active? It's nearly impossible to read the text.

You can access the clock settings by right-clicking on the clock > Settings. Then when you click on the Wrench icon you get even more settings - including fonts, format, background color, etc...

I don't think Windows allows the user as much control as linux does. It is just a matter of learning linux.

That is determined by the theme you are using. Switch to a different theme until you find one you like.

Alt+F2 >
maybe to restart the kde "panel"?

dcop is not a valid command.

I looked at clock settings but no way to change the actual size, only the font, and the font only changes the clock part and not the date, I can change the date font through the general GUI settings by changing the taskbar font, I don't know why they put it in two different places and don't treat the whole clock as one entity.

Depending on what font I use it either makes the clock area super wide, or too small, there's no happy medium and there is no setting to specify it in pixels or other fixed size.

Tried different themes but it does not seem to change the colours much, only the look. There are some settings to change colours but they don't seem to cover everything.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...1/kdcop.1.html

but it looks like kdcop was available in hardy, but no longer available in trusty.

Alt+F2 > then?

After lot of messing around it seems to be fixed, but I still can't figure out how to just specify the size in pixels. I'm sure the next time the name of month changes it's just going to do it again.