icons don't show up in tray area

[reggler]

hi,

I just have restarted my box after a long time, I hasd installed a bunch of updates earlier but now after the reboot, my tray icons don't show up anymore, the only thing i see in the tray is the clock, the network manager and the device notifier (and the little up arrow menu contains an icon for notifications only) , icons like klipper, kmix or kontact won't show up anymore. Anyone know what this is all about? I have KDE 4.10.5 running..

Thank you!
Ron

[reggler]

Oh now,

What I did just before I rebooted was this:

killall -9 kmix
rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/kmix/
rm -f $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/kmix*
kmix &

Because my KMix had been eating up all my cup and memory, I found this on: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=202&t=92206 and it seems to have helped on another machine where I had the same problem...

[reggler]

Anyone...?

I probably could fix it deleting my .kde/ directory but I don't like to re-configure KDE from scartch...

[reggler]

A wide shot; is it that certain plasmoids got lost and need to be reinstalled?
Right click the taskbar, unlock widgets, Panel Options, Add Widgets.

Naw, I just "resolved" it by biting in the sour apple and removing ~/.kde/ but now the digital clock doesn't let me choose my time zone. The only option that I'm given to check is UTC...

[reggler]

There are at least two ways to set the clock and time zone, 1. via System Settings or 2. by right-clicking the clock and selecting Set Clock.
With 1. you should set the (hardware) clock to UTC and then select your correct time zone.
There still is a bug in the time application but you can get all working properly by opening a terminal or the Konsole and entering the following command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Please use the cursor and Tab keys to navigate.

I've done taht already but my system clock is fine:

Current default time zone: 'America/Vancouver'
Local time is now:      Tue Aug 27 20:00:51 PDT 2013.
Universal Time is now:  Wed Aug 28 03:00:51 UTC 2013.

it's just that the clock in KDE keeps showing UTC and when I right click and go to "Digital Clock Settings" under "Time Zones" i only see UTC, nothing else... and the dropdown on the bottom is set to "Local".... but still, I only get utc in my KDE clock...

[sithlord48]

use the scroll wheel over the clock to change timezone from UTC to Local.

[reggler]

use the scroll wheel over the clock to change timezone from UTC to Local.

Thanks for pitching in sithlord48 but the scroll wheel only changes the format of the date in my clock and if I select to not display any date, the scroll wheel will just swtch between utc and "not utc" in the label below the clock but the time will stay the same as the digital clock thinks, my local time is utc (only choice under timezones menu in settings). Where are the timezones read from that get populated into that list bar?

[sithlord48]

make a new clock and see if you now have more timezones. if your system clock is correct then it must be the widget showing it wrong.

[reggler]

make a new clock and see if you now have more timezones. if your system clock is correct then it must be the widget showing it wrong.

Naw, no other timezones available for choice either... well, it must be loading these timezones from somewhere, probably a text file somewhere which might be messed up on my system for some reason... any ideas? Maybe someone could do a quick search on his/her system to find such a file...?

[reggler]

Yes I know that but on my side it only has one check box and it says "utc" next to it, no other choice....

[reggler]

And here's the screenshot:

[reggler]

I could believe the application tzdata needs to be (re)installed...

Thanks Teunis,

I did a

sudo apt-get install --reinstall tzdata

followed by

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Current default time zone: 'America/Vancouver'
Local time is now:      Sat Aug 31 09:16:57 PDT 2013.
Universal Time is now:  Sat Aug 31 16:16:57 UTC 2013.

but looks still the same in my clock's timezone dialog...