[SOLVED] I've lost my task bar, well, half of it.

[ultrageeky]

How do I get back the open windows tabs that should be displayed by my taskbar?

They were present when I fist installed yesterday but disappeared when I gave the bar a new height. In fact, they went as soon as I clicked the bar with its setting's panel opened. I thought they might return if I rebooted into a fresh session but no, they're still hidden. Please help me get them back.

[kubicle]

Re: I've lost my task bar, well, half of it.

But I do know renaming the ~.kde directory will at the next start up of kde create a new default desktop.

Yes, but that's the definition of overkill

You can simply add the "task manager" widget back to the panel (right-click on empty space in panel, choose add widget and add the task manager widget). Afterwards you can drag-and-drop rearrange widgets by opening the panel configuration bar.

If you want to start plasma configurations afresh, you can reset plasma configurations by running:

kquitapp plasma-desktop

rm ~/.kde/share/config/plasm*

plasma-desktop

(Which will only reset plasma configurations and won't touch your other kde settings)

[ultrageeky]

Re: I've lost my task bar, well, half of it.

Thank you, both of you. I thought it might have been a missing widget but wasn't sure which one it might be; should have realised it would be "Task Manager".

Kubilce, the last bit of information you provided will prove helpful for other things so I've added it to my note book.