KDE 4.3 Task Manager not showing window instances

[thatwaschrislee]

I'm not sure what I've changed but when I now boot my system, the following is seen:
1. knetworkmanager crashes
2. the Task Manager does not show windows that are open
3. my desktop background looks to be set to transparent. It is the light grey/lighter grey checkerboard pattern.

I unchecked the setting to have knetworkmanager show a tray icon and I no longer get the knetworkmanager crash but the other problems remain.

Any thoughts?? I'm using Kubuntu 9.04, AMD64 build.

thanks,
chris

[lmilano]

Re: KDE 4.3 Task Manager not showing window instances

Hi Chris

I would try this:

1. RIght click on the panel, select to add Widgets, and see if you can add the Task Manager. Are you sure it is there? The same with the System Tray

2. Right click on the Desktop and do Desktop Settins -> Background

There is a bug (IMO, though I never reported sinc e it is hard to reproduce), where a machine crash in the middle of a KDE Session can render my next KDE login into a mostly unusable desktop. Since I do nightly builds, I always copy the ~/.kde folder from the backup and gp from there. My hunch is that KDE4's plasma keeps info about its own state in a mixture of RAM and files, and a hard crash can lead into an incosistent state next login.

HTH!