Accidentally reset panel length

[Eric Weir]

In the process of trying to get various Thunderbird windows -- e.g., reading a message, composing, printing, etc. -- to remember different sizes and positions I somehow reset the length of the panel at the bottom. It now covers a little more than half the width of the screen.

Since none of my efforts to affect Thunderbird window size and location worked, -- i.e., by doing right click/advance/special window or special application settings -- I reset all the values to what they were originally, but that didn't return the panel to its full length

I also looked for a way to reset the panel length in the configure panel window, but didn't find anything there.

How can I return the panel to full length?

Thanks,

[dibl]

Re: Accidentally reset panel length

If you right-click out in the empty area of the panel, and choose "configure panel", you get a window that includes "Lenght" in the middle area. Try 100%.

[Eric Weir]

Re: Accidentally reset panel length

If you right-click out in the empty area of the panel, and choose "configure panel", you get a window that includes "Lenght" in the middle area. Try 100%.

I tried that. It was set at 100% after the change happened. So there's no way to make it any longer.

I think this has something to do with my experiments at trying to get application windows to remember size and location. Once, after configuring the Thunderbird message window, I found that Konqueror opened to the same size. I was able to reset it, but I can't find a way to change the panel length.

Thanks for the suggestion,

[Snowhog]

Re: Accidentally reset panel length

Is the Expand as required to fit contents checked or unchecked?

[Eric Weir]

Re: Accidentally reset panel length

Is the Expand as required to fit contents checked or unchecked?

It's checked.

Today I tried a suggestion I got from the Ubuntu beginners forum -- reinstalling the desktop. That didn't work. The panel was still just a little over half the width of the screen. So I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling. Agan, the screen came back just a little over half the width of the screen.

It appears that uninstalling didn't delete my configurations, since the panel not only came back less than half the width of the screen, but with my old launchers, etc. Makes me wonder whether there's a way of really, completely uninstalling, i.e., of getting rid of my configurations, etc. If so, perhaps I'd get a normal panel on reinstalling.

Is there a way? Are there some files that would have to be deleted manually? What are they? Or am I stuck with a "half-assed" panel?

As always, any help will be appreciated.

Sincerely,

[Snowhog]

Re: Accidentally reset panel length

You might want to look at the kickerrc file. It's located in ~/.kde/share/config/kickerrc. .kde is a hidden folder, so in your home directory (Konqueror) click View | Show Hidden Files then navigate through .kde, share, config. The kickerrc file has to be edited by root (make a backup copy first). The settings for Kicker are in this file.

[Snowhog]

Re: Accidentally reset panel length

Alternately, you can simply rename the .kde folder (.kde_OLD). When you restart KDE, the .kde directory will be re-created with new configuration files.